Kolkatan studying in UK missing
9 Jan 2013 6:42 AM IST
A 19-year-old Indian student in Britain has been missing since New Year's Eve, prompting his father to issue an impassioned appeal to trace his son. Souvik Pal, from Kolkata, vanished after being separated from friends while celebrating New Year's Eve a nightclub in Manchester city.
Police divers combed the Bridgewater Canal near the Warehouse Project nightclub in the following days but the teenager remains missing, Manchester Evening News reported on Tuesday.
His father, Santanu Pal, who flew to Manchester from Bangalore in a bid to help the search, said he would stay in Britain until his son is traced.
At a press conference at police headquarters in Manchester on Tuesday, he made an appeal to anyone with information which might lead police to his whereabouts. Santanu said he was proud of his son, who seemed to be settling well in Manchester and had made friends after enrolling on a product design course at Manchester Metropolitan University.
He lived in Cavendish halls of residence on Cambridge Street.
Police divers combed the Bridgewater Canal near the Warehouse Project nightclub in the following days but the teenager remains missing, Manchester Evening News reported on Tuesday.
His father, Santanu Pal, who flew to Manchester from Bangalore in a bid to help the search, said he would stay in Britain until his son is traced.
At a press conference at police headquarters in Manchester on Tuesday, he made an appeal to anyone with information which might lead police to his whereabouts. Santanu said he was proud of his son, who seemed to be settling well in Manchester and had made friends after enrolling on a product design course at Manchester Metropolitan University.
He lived in Cavendish halls of residence on Cambridge Street.
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