Missing woman is found in cemetery 3 A PAKISTANI woman,

Gulf Daily News
Thursday, 20th November 2014
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Missing woman is
found in cemetery
A PAKISTANI woman,
who went missing five
days ago, has been found
wandering in a Manama
graveyard.
Mother-of-three Nusrat
Fatima, 32, left her house
in Riffa in the early hours of
Friday.
A missing person’s report
was filed at East Riffa Police Station the same day,
but it was not until yesterday that she was located – in
a cemetery near the Kuwaiti
Building, where her mother
is buried.
It is not known where
Ms Fatima had been since
she went missing as she is
not talking to investigators,
but her sister told the GDN
that she is just glad to see
By ANIQA HAIDER
her alive.
“She had been spotted in
Manama two or three times
but no-one recognised her –
they thought she was out for
a walk or just shopping,” said
the younger sister, who did not
want to be named.
“We told the security guard
at the cemetery to inform us if
he sees her.
“He called us when he spotted her and we went straight
away.
“We thank God that we
found her, but she is not
talking or giving any information.”
Ms Fatima’s mother died in
2009 and was buried in the cemetery where the missing woman
was found, her
“I don’t know
sister said.
what happened to
“Probably she
her.
went to our moth“We have been
er’s grave to pray,”
asking her quesshe said.
tions, but she is
“We don’t know
not telling us anyif she visited the
thing.
cemetery
occa“I hope she is
sionally during the
fine, I am realpast week or actuly worried about
ally stayed there.”
her.”
Following the n Ms Fatima ... found
Ms Fatima has
initial GDN report
now been released
yesterday, eyewitness accounts into the care of her family by
of Ms Fatima’s whereabouts the police.
started flooding in, her sister
The cemetery, where she was
said.
found, is right in the heart of
“Some people posted on Manama.
Facebook saying she was spotIt has four gates, one for a
ted wandering in Manama, mosque which is used by worbut they thought she was with shippers and the other three for
someone,” she said.
visitors to the graveyard.
A Pakistani man caring the
graves told the GDN that the
woman could have been sleeping in the women’s prayer
room.
“We open the door after
Fajr prayers at dawn and close
at 5pm because it’s dark,” he
said.
“No-one is allowed to stay
inside the cemetery.
“We don’t know if she slept
inside the mosque’s prayer
room and came out in the
mornings, or she just came
when we spotted her in the
mornings.
“We hope and pray that she
is fine, as her relatives told us
her condition is not well.”
aneeqa@gdn.com.bh
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Association
holds talent
competition
THE Kerala Catholic Association
(KCA) is holding a talent competition next month.
It is part of the UAE Exchange
KCA Talent Scan, which is a festival of art, culture and literature.
The talent contest is open to all
Indian students in Bahrain aged
five to 18.
The closing date for entries is
December 5 and winners of the
seven awards will be announced
on December 11.
Categories include drawing,
painting, English speech, Malayalam speech, general knowledge,
clay modelling and film songs.
The event was announced yesterday at a Press conference at
the KCA, in Segaiya.
For
more
information,
call 39697600 or 39863008,
or visit www.kcabahrain.com
for registration forms and rules.
Focus on art
from Jordan
JORDANIAN art has gone on
display at the Al Riwaq Gallery
in Adliya, as part of an exhibition that will run until Saturday.
All proceeds from the Jordanian Contemporary Art Exhibition will go to the Aisha Yateem Centre, which is hosting
the event in collaboration with
Wadi Finan for Arts gallery
from Amman.
GEORGE CLOONEY’S CHOICE.
n A reception was
held last night to
introduce new
general manager
of The Westin
and Le Meridien
Bahrain City
Centre, Klaus
Niefer. The event,
at The Westin’s
Nasmat Pool
Bar and Lounge,
was attended
by officials
and media
representatives.
Above, at the
reception
are, from left,
Starwood Hotels
and Resorts
complex hotel
manager Daniel
van der Heijden,
public relations
manager Sari
Mabire, chef
Ilango and Mr
Niefer. Right,
chefs preparing
for the reception.
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