A 27-year-old Chinese tourist who arrived in Mauritius on Tuesday June 13 and was due to leave the country on Monday June 19 has been missing since the day after his arrival. The security manager of the Anantara hotel where he checked in made a statement to this effect at the Plaine-Magnien police station on the morning of Sunday June 18. A vast search operation was launched by elements of the Criminal Investigation Division (CID) of the southern division.
It was at around 8 o’clock on Sunday morning, June 18, that the hotel’s security manager went to the Plaine-Magnien police station to report the disappearance of the Chinese tourist. In his complaint, he stated that the tourist had gone missing from his room shortly after 11 a.m. on Wednesday June 14. He was wearing cream-colored pants, a navy-blue t-shirt and a pair of sports shoes. The tourist is approximately one metre seventy-five.
According to information obtained by CID, the missing man had left the Anantara hotel on Wednesday morning, June 14, to go to the public beach of La Cambuse. On the same day, a team of police officers from the Plaine-Magnien police station, the tourist police, the CID, the police dog and elements of the National Coast Guard (NCG), went to his room to search it. A receipt for a reservation at the Hotel Talamba in Pointe d’Esny, in the name of the fugitive, was found in a drawer. Upon checking, the Chinese tourist never arrived at the hotel.
A search was also carried out in the coastal area of La Cambuse, but to no avail. Several people were questioned, but no information was obtained to find him. Since then, the search has been continued by police officers from Plaine-Magnien and, above all, by the Southern Division CID, under the supervision of Superintendent of Police Mahendradeosingh Surnam. The NCG was called out to patrol the sea and beach.
In addition, an 82-year-old man who was reported missing on the evening of Sunday June 18, was found in the early hours of Monday morning June 19 in the middle of a cane field in Petite Julie. The octogenarian, who was suffering from injuries, was taken to the northern hospital for treatment, before being allowed to return home.
His son, a 53-year-old cook, reported the disappearance to the Pamplemousses police station on the evening of Sunday June 18. He reported that his father, who lives under the same roof in Ville Bague, had been missing since 12.40 p.m. on Sunday June 18. The missing man is not in his right mind. A search operation by police officers from the northern division, assisted by a police sniffer dog, found the octogenarian in the middle of a cane field in Petite-Julie.
