A 15-YEAR-old girL of Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara has been reported missing after last being seen on Sunday. According to Zulaika Asrufali, the child’s grandmother and legal guardian, she left the missing teen, Zairool Ali, also known as Zalina, at home preparing meals around 06:30hrs on Sunday.
Asrufali, who is a newspaper vendor, said she left that morning to ply her trade but a downpour of rain forced her to send a young boy to her home to collect an umbrella.
When the boy returned, minus the umbrella, he told me that there was no-one at the house; that there was a padlock on the door when he arrived.
This caused her to become worried, Asrufali said, so she enquired of the girl’s father, who lives nearby, when was the last time he saw his daughter, and he replied that she had come by earlier in the day “to pick peppers” but left soon after.
However, members of the community would later tell her that they’d noticed the child getting into a taxi in the company of a young man with whom she was known to be friendly.
Asrufali said the family has since tried making contact with the young man in question but to no avail.
The missing teen, who attends the La Bonne Intention (LBI) Secondary School was last seen wearing a blue dress. And according to her granny, she had run away once before, and was “found staying in the North West District.”
Fearing the worst, Asrufali is now pleading with anyone who has any information on the whereabouts of her granddaughter to make contact with the family on any of the following numbers: 664-9187, 698-2656, 618-3467 or 678-5424, or contact the nearest police station.