No Sign of Missing Illinois Woman after Searching Des Plaines River

By Dan Keane
14:29, December 28th 2007
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No Sign of Missing Illinois Woman after Searching Des Plaines River

Police divers in Chicago searched Wednesday Des Plaines River for a 24-year-old woman believed to have drowned while trying to put a religious statue in the water.

Anu Solanki, of Indian origin and a resident of unincorporated Des Plaines in Cook County in Illinois, had gone to the river to immerse a broken statue of Lord Ganesh on Monday. Her husband, Dignesh Solanki, told the Associated Press that his wife wanted to dispose the statue, the Hindu God for wisdom and good luck, in the river, following a religious leader’s instructions. The statue had been used at their wedding last year.

Solanki’s car, a Honda Civic, had been found by relatives in a forest preserve parking lot near the suburb of Wheeling, Chicago. It had its door unlocked and the motor running, Steve Mayberry, a spokesperson for the Cook County Forest Preserve District said, according to the Chicago Tribune. Her relatives reported that one of the woman’s purses and a laptop were missing, while a second purse, which had money in it, was still in the car.

Divers from the Wheeling Fire Department and other agencies used sonar to search the river about a mile south of where the car was found near Des Plaines River Dam No. 1, while officers in a forest preserve police boat searched 6 miles south, Mayberry said. Moreover, Cook County sheriff’s police used a helicopter and a canine unit in a search of nearby woods. After searching the river for more than 6 hours, police found no sign of Solanki or the idol.

Relatives planned to distribute leaflets on Thursday near the Westin hotel and the river in hope that someone knew something about the woman.

Mayberry also said that police have no suspect in this case.

 

 

 

 



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