A 28-year-old Swedish girl has been reported missing during a trip to Sri Lanka, leaving only a Facebook social community network message to say that she had been robbed and beaten. Marie Jonsson Sillén from Vargarda in Vastergotland in central Sweden went missing in early March while on a holiday to the island of Sri Lanka. She was due to return to Sweden last Monday.
Interpol issued a ‘missing persons’ on March 16 and the Swedish police, foreign ministry and Swedens embassy in New Delhi are all involved in the search for the missing Swede lass. A woman claiming to be the 28-year-old has reported to have been in contact with the local authorities by telephone. "It is not yet confirmed that it is her," Pia Roed at the Swedish Foreign Ministry was quoted as saying to a news agency.
Silléns disappearance is described as "mysterious" and the last confirmed correspondence from her was a Facebook message posted on March 5th, and an email sent to her best friend a couple of days later, according to the ‘Expression Daily’. In the Facebook post the 28-year-old described how she had been robbed and beaten and there are fears that she has been kidnapped.
A woman who had met Sillén during her flight to Sri Lanka and spent the first few days of their holiday together with her, has confirmed that she met her again in the Marissa Beach area of Sri Lanka and was told of her ordeal. Jonsson Sillén was reported to be in the company of a western man and Sri Lankan woman and the woman took this to mean that she was being given help. "It was first when the woman came home that she realised that Marie had disappeared," Silléns friend Nathalie was quoted as saying to the newspaper.