Five missing girls. (Photo: Courtesy).

Five teenage girls have gone missing for five days in Juba’s Giada Residential Area, prompting a fruitless search by their families and relatives.

Santino Dut Akeen, a cousin to the missing girls said the adolescents were last seen on November 10, when they went to Jebel market, but since then, they did not return home.

The missing girls have been identified as Awut Riing Ajou, Awer Riing Ajou, Ayuen Riing Ajou, Nyang Mabior Ater, and Rayi Lembi.

They are aged between 16 and 19.

“The girls went out to the market at 3 pm on that day. We were out together with our mother, she was in Gudele and I was at work,” Dut narrated to Eye Radio.

“When they delayed, people in the house called us that those girls still did not return to the house from 3 pm till 7 pm.”

“We returned, thinking that they went to their friends and they will return back and till midnight they did not come back and we slept, the second day the same thing and there was no good news,” he said.

Dut, who is also the guardian said the girls’ father is in Abyei.

The horrified relative said he has visited police stations and waited to hear news of the girls’ whereabouts in vain.

He says the family decided to file several missing persons cases at Malakia, Gumbo, Gudele and Northern Division police stations.

Dut is appealing to whoever finds the girls to call the families on the telephone number 0922886061.

When contacted for comment, the police spokesperson Major General Daniel Justin said he was not aware of the incident, adding that he will get back at a later time.