Namo Abdinur Ahmed

Star Tribune
January 23, 2012

A 10-year-old Bloomington girl walked into the emergency room at Abbott-Northwestern Hospital eight hours after she disappeared Sunday near Pillsbury Avenue S. and Lake Street W. in Minneapolis, police said.

Namo Abdinur Ahmed, who reappeared at about 6 p.m., was not hurt and no foul play appeared to have been involved, but police were continuing to investigate what happened during the time she was missing, said police spokesman Sgt. William Palmer.

Namo was not thought to have been abducted, but it's not clear what happened to her after she left a religious school on her own volition.

Just after 10 a.m., officers in the Fifth Precinct responded to a report of the girl's disappearance. Namo, who had gotten out of a car in a parking lot with her mother and siblings and was walking just ahead of them to a nearby address for religious classes, did not show up for that class.

Indications are that Namo left the religious school alone and at her own volition. In the ensuing eight hours, officers went door to door in the area, spread the word within Namo's Somali-American community, used a police dog to track her and alerted law enforcement officers around the metro area and in Bloomington.

"The Minneapolis Police Department thanks the Twin Cities media for their quick response to this case," Palmer said in a news release. "Several people did call police indicating that they had seen the girl after the initial media coverage went out."

Source:Star Tribune

Copyright © 2012 WardheerNews.com