A Christchurch preschooler has baffled those who spent hours searching for her, by returning home on her own accord without anyone noticing.
More than a hundred police officers and neighbours scoured paddocks, streets and creeks in Broomfield on Thursday evening in their efforts to find 3-year-old Mila Rule.
Her parents Darren and Amiria Rule had thought she was in her room with an iPad while they were preparing dinner about 5.15pm, but when they called to her they found she was not there, Fairfax has reported.
There wasn't any sign of her outside her home or at the neighbours.
Mila's father told Fairfax that's when they started getting concerned.