An eight-year-old tribal girl who had gone missing from a government-run residential school in Maharashtra’s Palghar district was found safe at a villager’s home and reunited with her parents, officials said on Sunday.

According to the news agency PTI, the girl had been dropped off at the ashram school in Parli, Wada taluka, by her mother after a short break. Her brother is also a student at the same school. On the afternoon of November 6, the headmistress informed police that the child had gone missing from the campus.