Abu Dhabi: An expatriate couple has filed a police report saying their 16-year-old daughter of Chinese origin went missing on Thursday night in the capital.

Li Xue, an eighth grade pupil at Emirates Private School, was last seen getting into a taxi late on Thursday near Shakespeare Restaurant on Muroor Street near her apartment, Zhu Chunyan, 40, her Chinese mother, and Gil Loc, 40, her French stepfather, told Gulf News on Saturday. Her passport is at home with her parents.

The family has been living in an apartment for more than a year at Yacoob Tower behind the Holiday Inn Hotel in Abu Dhabi.

Since both parents work until late in the evening, the daughter used to carry the apartment key with her to return home around 3pm on schooldays and would wait alone until her parents returned, they said.

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