India, Nov. 2 -- Authorities in Mesa, Arizona, have issued a Turquoise Alert and are searching intensively for Yolyn Hermios. The teenager, declared missing by the police, was last seen at around 6 PM on Saturday near her home, Arizona's Family reported.

Turquoise Alert is also known as 'Emily's Law'. It is named after a 14-year-old girl, Emily Pike, a murder victim whose dismembered body was found in February this year. Pike belonged to the San Carlos Apache, a Native American tribe, and disappeared three weeks before her body was found, as reported by NBC

The brutal murder led her tribe to campaign for tighter law enforcement regulations. This led to the institution of the'Turquoise Alert'. The official website of the Arizona governme...