India, Oct. 26 -- A 70-year-old woman who went missing from her native place in Karnataka after accidentally boarding the wrong vehicle was reunited with her family in 16 days, after a team used artificial intelligence (AI), Google Search and local community networks to trace her relatives, officials said on Monday.

Razak Bi, a native of Ranebennur in Karnataka's Haveri district, had accidentally boarded the wrong vehicle and ended up in Nalasopara in Maharashtra's Palghar district on October 6.

Unable to find her way back home, she was taken into the care of personnel from Achole police station, who arranged for her to stay at Samarth Ashram in Virar Phata, officials said, according to news agency PTI.

Efforts to trace her family were...