Singapore student vanishes after Cambodia flight ticket is found
A 20-year-old Singaporean student has gone missing after her family discovered she had booked a flight to Cambodia. Her family has issued an urgent public appeal for help in locating her as police investigations continue.
Why it matters
The case highlights the urgency of missing persons investigations and the role of social media in public appeals.
Singapore student Siti Aishah Siregar left home saying she was going to college; hours later her family found her passport missing and a Cambodia flight ticket in her email.Singapore police confirmed that the 20-year-old had already left the country on an outbound flight, prompting an urgent search to track her down in Phnom Penh.According to the teenager's eldest brother, Syafiq Siregar, who spoke to news outlet Berita Mediacorp, Aishah informed her mother at around 11am on 28 July that she was travelling to Nanyang Polytechnic as usual.Concerns grew later that afternoon when family members arrived at the college campus at about 5pm to pick her up. They discovered that her mobile phone was completely unreachable and her WhatsApp account had been deactivated.Upon returning home, the family noticed that Aishah's passport was missing from the house.
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