A team of Uganda Wildlife Authority rangers, police and UPDF have for the last six days been searching for Ms Sophie Isabella Federica, a medical student from the Netherlands, who went missing at about 7pm last Wednesday.
She is said to have told her friends she was going for a short call, a distance away from the Students Education Centre in Paraa, Nwoya District, but didn’t return.
Ms Federica is a volunteer at Rubaga Hospital in Kampala.
The search team says they have found a mineral water bottle Ms Fedrica had at the banks of River Nile, a few metres from where she left her friends.
At the weekend, a special team from the Civil Aviation Authority using a UPDF military chopper, together with special Police Marine Unit, and police dog section, combed a great section of the national park and River Nile in search for the tourist in vain.
Special technical teams from The Netherlands Embassy in Uganda and marine police are expected to join the team on the ground to continue the search.
Aswa Regional police spokesperson Patrick Jimmy Okema said that the security agents on the ground were making a thorough sweep through the national park.
“We cannot say the missing tourist is dead or not, it is still early. Our committed personnel are on the ground making sure she is found. We have got assurance that there is a special team on the way coming to backup those searching,” said Mr Okema.
Please read the previous story about Sophie Isabella Federica who is believed to have been mauled by a Nile Crocodile, here: http://tourismobserver.blogspot.ug/2015/10/uganda-dutch-tourist-goes-missing-in.html
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