Number of missing children on the increase

Police statistics indicate that the number of children reported missing has been steadily increasing in recent years. Over 8,000 children were reported missing in the course of 2006. Six thousand of them ran away from orphanages and children's homes, often repeatedly, two thousand ran away from their parents. Fortunately, the police have a high success rate in tracing the vast majority of them. Ninety-eight percent of them were found safe and sound.