A nine-year-old boy was reunited with his parents yesterday after sleeping rough for three nights because he was afraid to return home fearing he had received poor exam grades.
Yim Hang-chi left a study room in the Tsuen Wan Centre in Tsuen King Circuit on Tuesday morning, hours before he was due to go to school to collect his exam results.
His parents and relatives launched a search after a neighbour who went to pick him up at about noon could not find him. Police joined the hunt when his father reported him missing that night.
Hang-chi was found yesterday by a security guard sleeping on the floor at a corner of the Discovery Park shopping arcade in Tsuen King Circuit at about 3am.
Officers believe he hid somewhere in the three-storey shopping centre when it closed. The guard handed him back to his parents who took him to Tsuen Wan police station at about 6am.
The boy told officers he did not go home because he had not done well in the exam and feared his parents would punish him.