Saipan sisters still missing after a year
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May 27, 2012, Sunday
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IT'S been a year since two sisters were last seen waiting for a school bus in their Saipan village, prompting a massive search involving local authorities from the United States Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and volunteers.
The disappearance of the two children from the small, close-knit island sparked a prompt search that entailed canvassing jungles, searching abandoned buildings and digging through 30,000 cubic feet of the island's trash. Saipan has a population of about 60,000.
There are still no hard leads in the disappearance of 10-year-old Faloma Luhk and her sister, nine-year-old Maleina Luhk.
They were reported missing by their grandparents when they didn't come home on May 25, 2011. FBI agents from Honolulu, sent to help local agents and police, spent a month on the island. A reward for information grew to US$50,000.
"Despite the inherent frustrations of this case, the FBI and police refuse to give up," FBI Special Agent Tom Simon said on Friday. He was one of the agents who helped in the weeklong dig of the landfill.
A false alarm in the case came in August, when human bones were found near their home. It turned out the bones belonged to an elderly male relative.
The disappearance of the two children from the small, close-knit island sparked a prompt search that entailed canvassing jungles, searching abandoned buildings and digging through 30,000 cubic feet of the island's trash. Saipan has a population of about 60,000.
There are still no hard leads in the disappearance of 10-year-old Faloma Luhk and her sister, nine-year-old Maleina Luhk.
They were reported missing by their grandparents when they didn't come home on May 25, 2011. FBI agents from Honolulu, sent to help local agents and police, spent a month on the island. A reward for information grew to US$50,000.
"Despite the inherent frustrations of this case, the FBI and police refuse to give up," FBI Special Agent Tom Simon said on Friday. He was one of the agents who helped in the weeklong dig of the landfill.
A false alarm in the case came in August, when human bones were found near their home. It turned out the bones belonged to an elderly male relative.
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