10 Nov, 2023 @ 15:48
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FOUND: Expat girl, 15, who failed to return home from international school on Spain’s Costa del Sol is safe and sound

A TEENAGER who failed to return home from school on the Costa del Sol has been found alive and well.

Valeriia Romaniuk vanished on Thursday after attending her classes at the IES Benalmadena institute.

The 15-year-old, from Ukraine, texted her mother to say she was on her way home, but never arrived.

Within hours, the family filed a missing person’s report at the local police station.

Her photo was later shared far and wide by the national missing person’s association SOS Desaparecidos.

The same group has now confirmed that she has been found and is safe.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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