Of­fi­cials are cur­rent­ly search­ing for two teenage wards of the St Jude’s Home for Girls, Diego Mar­tin, who re­port­ed­ly ran away from their care­givers dur­ing sep­a­rate out­ings ear­li­er this week.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, a 15-year-old girl was dropped off at the Barataria South Sec­ondary School, where she usu­al­ly at­tends class­es, around 8.15 am on Tues­day.

How­ev­er, when the dri­ver re­turned around 3.15 pm to col­lect her, she could not be found.

The girl is known to of­fi­cials, as she has run away sev­er­al times in the past.

This ward is ap­prox­i­mate­ly 5 feet 4 inch­es tall; light brown in com­plex­ion and has nat­ur­al kinky hair. She was last seen dressed in her school uni­form, which fea­tures a brown shirt, blue pleat­ed skirt, black sneak­ers and a back­pack.

The sec­ond girl to be re­port­ed miss­ing from the fa­cil­i­ty is a 16-year-old, who es­caped her care­givers af­ter she was tak­en to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex, Mt Hope, for med­ical treat­ment.

This par­tic­u­lar ward was said to have been in the com­pa­ny of a care­giv­er and se­cu­ri­ty guard when she al­leged­ly ran off and got in­to a wait­ing ve­hi­cle.

Re­ports in­di­cate the girl ar­rived at the hos­pi­tal around 12.45 pm on Tues­day for treat­ment. How­ev­er, as she was be­ing es­cort­ed to the home’s ve­hi­cle to leave around 5.35 pm, she pulled away and start­ed run­ning to­wards a sil­ver X-Trail which had been parked near the fa­cil­i­ty’s mor­tu­ary.

The girl got in­to the wait­ing van, which sped off.

She was de­scribed as be­ing of African de­scent, brown in com­plex­ion, slim built, with short brown hair, and with a small scar on her right cheek.

She was last seen wear­ing a hi­jab, a black Mus­lim gown, long brown tights, a black vest, black socks, and a pair of white and black Nike slip­pers.

Any­one with in­for­ma­tion on the where­abouts of both girls is asked to con­tact the near­est po­lice sta­tion.