13-year-old girl disappears near home

A 13-year-old Saudi girl vanished while playing near her house in Saudi Arabia, triggering a massive police search operation.

Salma went out to play near her house in capital Riyadh in the evening but never returned home, Sabq newspaper said.

“Police are looking for her. She went missing while she was playing out…she is thin and has a long hair,” the paper said, quoting her father Dakheel Al Mutairi.