{"id":39192,"date":"2026-05-30T19:13:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T09:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=39192"},"modified":"2026-05-30T19:13:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T09:13:05","slug":"appeal-to-locate-teenage-girl-missing-from-lake-macquarie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/appeal-to-locate-teenage-girl-missing-from-lake-macquarie\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal to locate teenage girl missing from Lake Macquarie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a teenage girl missing from the Lake Macquarie region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nyamba Seymour, aged 13, was last seen on Oakland Street, Glendale, about 8.50am on Monday 18 May 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When she was unable to be located or contacted since, officers attached to Lake Macquarie Police District were notified and commenced inquiries into her whereabouts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police and her family have concerns for her welfare given her age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nyamba is described as being of Aboriginal\/Torres Strait Islander appearance, about 160cm tall, of slim build, with long brown hair and brown eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She was last seen wearing a blue school uniform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nyamba is known to frequent the Goulburn, Mt Druitt, Glendale, Wallsend, Wollongong, Port Kembla and Warrawong areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a teenage girl missing from the Lake Macquarie region. Nyamba Seymour, aged 13, was last seen on Oakland Street, Glendale, about 8.50am on Monday 18 May 2026. When she was unable to be located or contacted since, officers attached to Lake Macquarie Police District were notified and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/appeal-to-locate-teenage-girl-missing-from-lake-macquarie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Appeal to locate teenage girl missing from Lake Macquarie&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39193,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39192\/revisions\/39193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}