Western Australia police have appealed for help in finding a 10-year-old girl who went missing from Perth’s outer northern suburbs on Saturday. Lyndel Ningella was last seen leaving a home in Butler at about 5:45pm on 15 August. This was reported by infohub.kz.

The girl was last seen wearing black shorts and a black jumper. She is described as about 160cm tall, of medium build, with long brown hair with blonde ends and dark brown eyes. Police believe she may have travelled up to 80km away and could be in the Kwinana, Leda, Parmelia or Wellard areas of Perth’s coastal outer suburbs.

Western Australia police are requesting that anyone who sees Lyndel or has information regarding her whereabouts contact police immediately. Earlier, police mistakenly alerted that she was located on Monday afternoon, but several hours later they reissued an alert saying she was still missing.

Assistant Superintendent Darren Hart of Mandurah district police expressed concern for her safety. “We hold concerns for Lyndel due to her young age and believe she may be staying with family and associates,” he said at a media conference. “It’s believed she may have travelled to the Wellard area and was possibly there across the weekend. We are concerned for her safety in that she is a 10-year-old girl who is making her own way in the world.”