A missing Melbourne schoolboy who hasn’t been seen for more than three days had not attended school for two weeks – bit his family did not know.
Krishank Karthik, 16, also known as Krish, left his Truganina home in Melbourne’s west on Monday at around 7.45am headed towards Suzanne Cory High School.
But the year 11 student didn’t make it to school and it later turned out that he hadn’t been there in the last two weeks.
It’s understood that Krish may have travelled to NSW in the hours after he went missing.
He was reportedly captured on CCTV at an emergency accommodation centre in Sydney’s Surry Hills near Central Station the next day.
NSW Police released the CCTV on Thursday which shows him entering a building wearing a grey hoodie, back pants and a backpack.
He was last seen Cleveland Street in Redfern at about 4.50pm on Tuesday, according to NSW Police.
The reported sighting comes as his distraught mum, Shobana Karthik, recalled Krish’s last words to her the night before he went missing.
There has been a major twist in the search for Melbourne schoolboy Krishank Karthik (pictured), who has been missing for more than three days
NSW Police have released CCTV images of Krishank spotted in Sydney on Tuesday
When he didn’t come home from school on Monday afternoon, Ms Karthik called his friends, who told her Krish had not been to school in weeks.
CCTV from their home showed Krish walking down the driveway on Monday morning holding a small suitcase, backpack and some clothes.
He later sold his phone at 1.20pm to a shop on Swanston St in Melbourne’s CBD.
There were also reports he had been spotted at Melbourne central station.
But Krish changed his travel card and cannot be tracked through it.
Ms Akhilesh said the family only discovered on Monday night that the year 11 student had not been at school for the past fortnight.
‘Krishank has been going from home saying that he was going to school and he hasn’t gone to school,’ she told Seven News.
‘He comes home at the same time as you come back from school.’
His school thought Krish had been at home sick and his family has no idea as to what he was doing when he was supposed to be there.
‘I am just non-stop crying. All I’m praying is that you are back, Krish,’ his mum said.
‘I have not slept a minute. He knows he’s the world, he’s our world.’
The night before he vanished, Krish texted his mum asking when she would be home from the hospital, where she was visiting her sick mother.
When she got home she felt too tired to eat, but Krish convinced her to have dinner and they watched cricket together and were ‘laughing and talking’.
Krish wanted to stay up late, but his mum said he should go to bed as he had an exam the next day.
That was when he said to her, ‘Goodnight mum. Love you, mum.’
Distraught mum Shobana Karthik (pictured) said Krish’s last words to her the night before he went missing were ‘Goodnight mum. Love you, mum’
The search for the teen has widened after reported sightings in Sydney on Tuesday
That was the last time she saw him. ‘He didn’t wake me up in the morning because he knew I was tired,’ Ms Karthik said.
The family does not understand why Krish vanished.
His aunt Mathangi Akhilesh described him as a ‘brilliant’ child who had been doing very well at school and that nothing in his recent behaviour suggested anything was wrong.
‘We’ve spoken to his friends, they have been helping us with the investigation, and nothing, nothing unusual,’ she said.
‘(It’s) very out of character, Krishank is a … family loving kid.’
Krish is 177cm tall, medium build, and was wearing a grey hoodie, black track pants, black shoes and black Armani glasses when he was last seen.
Anyone who has any information should call Crime Stoppers.
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