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teenager has been abducted from a Hindu temple in Point Fortin.
Rajdaye Dian Rampersad, 18, of Kanhai Road, Barrackpore, was said to have been escorted off the compound of the temple by two men on Friday morning to a waiting white car. There she was seated between the two men in the back seat of the car which was driven by a third man, according to relatives.
Up to late yesterday, friends and relatives, along with the police, were searching for Rampersad, the only child for her parents-Bissoondaye Mona Rampersad and Charan Rampersad.
Bissoondaye told police that she went with Rajdaye to the Durga Temple at Dam Road, Point Fortin for "Havan" (thanksgiving service) early Friday morning. Around 9 a.m. she said left her daughter standing with other devotees waiting to worship at the temple, while she went to the washroom.
On returning, the elder Rampersad said she did not see her daughter and that other devotees told her that two men came into the compound, spoke with her daughter, and then she (the daughter) walked out with them.
The devotees thought that the girl knew the men and left willingly, reported Bissoondaye. But, she said, no one, except relatives, knew that she and Rajdaye were going to the temple and that her daughter did not know anyone in the area. She said she was sure that her daughter "is being kept against her will".
Up to late yesterday, the family had not received any calls for a ransom.
The missing girl's uncle, Lalman Bobby Rampersad, said that Bissoondaye and Rajdaye "only started going to that temple about a month now".
"When the other devotees saw Rajdaye walking out with the men, they thought she knew them, but I am sure she was threatened," he said yesterday.
The uncle said Rajdaye, who attends a school in San Fernando, "did not have a boyfriend as far as the family knows, but that a boy from Rousillac likes her".
He said after getting certain information, the police searched the compound of another temple in Rousillac and a house in Avocat Village, "but she was not there".
Point Fortin and Avocat police are continuing investigations.
Rajdaye Dian Rampersad, 18, of Kanhai Road, Barrackpore, was said to have been escorted off the compound of the temple by two men on Friday morning to a waiting white car. There she was seated between the two men in the back seat of the car which was driven by a third man, according to relatives.
Up to late yesterday, friends and relatives, along with the police, were searching for Rampersad, the only child for her parents-Bissoondaye Mona Rampersad and Charan Rampersad.
Bissoondaye told police that she went with Rajdaye to the Durga Temple at Dam Road, Point Fortin for "Havan" (thanksgiving service) early Friday morning. Around 9 a.m. she said left her daughter standing with other devotees waiting to worship at the temple, while she went to the washroom.
On returning, the elder Rampersad said she did not see her daughter and that other devotees told her that two men came into the compound, spoke with her daughter, and then she (the daughter) walked out with them.
The devotees thought that the girl knew the men and left willingly, reported Bissoondaye. But, she said, no one, except relatives, knew that she and Rajdaye were going to the temple and that her daughter did not know anyone in the area. She said she was sure that her daughter "is being kept against her will".
Up to late yesterday, the family had not received any calls for a ransom.
The missing girl's uncle, Lalman Bobby Rampersad, said that Bissoondaye and Rajdaye "only started going to that temple about a month now".
"When the other devotees saw Rajdaye walking out with the men, they thought she knew them, but I am sure she was threatened," he said yesterday.
The uncle said Rajdaye, who attends a school in San Fernando, "did not have a boyfriend as far as the family knows, but that a boy from Rousillac likes her".
He said after getting certain information, the police searched the compound of another temple in Rousillac and a house in Avocat Village, "but she was not there".
Point Fortin and Avocat police are continuing investigations.