Palghar, Nov 9 (PTI) An 8-year-old tribal girl who went missing from a government-run residential school in Maharashtra's Palghar district has been found safe at a villager's home and reunited with her parents, officials said on Sunday.

The child had been dropped off at the ashram (residential) school in Parli, Wada taluka, by her mother after a short break. Her brother also studies in the same school.

On the afternoon of November 6, the school's headmistress alerted police that the girl had disappeared from the campus.

According to Wada police station inspector Dattatreya Kindre, the child was "reluctant to stay at the school and wanted to go back home." Despite the staff's efforts to reassure her, she quietly slipped away.

Given the dense forests with wild animals and isolated terrai

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