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A missing French student who only speaks broken English may be too frightened to come forward, police said yesterday. Fanny Paltor, 17, disappeared after leaving a nightclub in Cardiff early on Saturday. The alarm was raised when she failed to return to the Campanile Hotel in Pentwyn, Cardiff, where she works as a waitress. Police were trying to trace five young men who picked her up in their car at around 2.30am on Saturday, although she was seen later in the city centre.

Known as Nina, she arrived in South Wales from her home in Soyaux, west France, on 5 April to work while she studied English. Yesterday Detective Chief Inspector Fred Williams, who is heading the inquiry, said: "Nina may feel scared that she is in trouble for staying away from her work. We are urging her to contact us and reassure us that she is safe."