MONTREAL -- UPDATE, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 10:15 a.m.: The Surete du Quebec says the girl was found safe in the Quebec City area Monday night.

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Provincial police have asked for the public's help to find a 16-year-old girl last seen in Montreal on Jan. 21. 

The girl is from St-Jean-sur-Richelieu.

She is 5 foot 7, about 145 lbs, has brown hair, green eyes, the Surete du Quebec on Thursday wrote in a press release.

The last time she was seen, she wore a black reversible jacket with a leopard print design and a black dress. She had a large, beige, Michael Kors handbag.

Anyone with information is asked to call 911 or, anonymously, to call 1 800 659-4264.