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"Missing teenage girls in Pakistan ran away to meet BTS, police say"
(CNN)Two teenage girls reported missing in Pakistan last week have been found more than 750 miles from home after attempting to travel to South Korea to meet K-pop super band BTS, police in the South Asian country said.
The two girls, aged 13 and 14, went missing on Saturday from Korangi in Karachi city, said Abraiz Ali Abbasi, a senior police superintendent of the area.
During a search of their homes, police found a diary that revealed their plans to travel to South Korea to meet the supergroup BTS, Abbasi said in a video statement.
"From the diary we saw mentions of train timetables and that they had been planning to run away with another friend of theirs ... who we then interviewed," Abassi said.
"We started tracking them aggressively and found out they were in custody of the police in the city of Lahore where they had traveled by train."
Abbasi said arrangements for the girls to be taken back home to Karachi have been made in coordination with police in Lahore.
And he made an appeal for parents to "please monitor their children's screen time," so they're more aware of what their children are viewing online.
"It isn't a surprise that two teenagers took this risk because 'stans' are capable of doing this for their idols," said culture journalist Rabia Mehmood, using a colloquial term for loyal fans. "But if we had more safe organized fan-girling spaces, younger fans could engage openly and freely with each other about their favorites instead of taking such risks."
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