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Search on for missing Indian woman in Chicago river

CHICAGO: Police divers searched a river in Illinois for a missing Indian woman who planned to place a damaged statue of Lord Ganesh in the water when she disappeared two days earlier.

The statue was broken when it arrived in a package sent by relatives, said Anu Solanki’s husband Dignesh Solanki. A religious leader told them it should be wrapped in a red cloth and placed in a lake or a river to prevent bad luck, Mr. Solanki said on Wednesday morning during a cellphone interview as he watched the divers search the river.

Authorities fear 24-year-old Anu Solanki may have slipped underwater while placing the statue in the current. Her car was found in a forest preserve in the Chicago suburb of Wheeling.

“I’m not going to give up hope,” Mr. Solanki said, adding that a phone call his wife made on Monday from her cellphone suggested she might be alive.

He said his wife called a friend on Monday afternoon and said four men were following her, then called back saying they were not following her anymore. He said she told him she planned to place the statue in the river after she got off work on Monday.

“She said, ‘I know where to go.’ That’s the spot my friend found her car,” Mr. Solanki said. — AP

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