A 16-year-old girl has been missing for more than 24 hours
Anyone with information is being encouraged to get in touch with police, who have set up a direct reference number for people to get in touch with them with any information concerning Tyra.
A statement from South Wales Police read: "Help us find Tyra, 16, from Pentre. She is missing and there is concern for her welfare.
"She was last seen at around 8am yesterday (Thursday, July 31).
"Please contact us with any sightings or information."
Contact police by calling 101, or provide information on its website. Use the reference number 2500244626.
People are reminded to call 999 in an emergency.
South Wales Police says it receives, on average, more than 8,000 missing persons reports every year.
It says a missing person is defined as someone whose whereabouts cannot be established, and that they will be considered missing until they care located and their wellbeing or otherwise is established.
Its website reads: "Often the missing person themselves does not consider themselves 'missing', however until they are sighted safe and well by police as a result of the concerns raised for them, they will be classed as a missing person.
"While we appreciate our communities' concerns when a person goes missing, and the genuine offers of help and support, we kindly ask that the public don't conduct their own searches.
"We ask this for a number of reasons; our searches are coordinated by highly-trained, well-equipped search experts who take an intelligence-led, methodical approach which everyone involved understands and follows."
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