Lina Sardar Khil.Photo: San Antonio Police Department
Lina Sardar Khil’s family should have been celebrating her fourth birthday on Sunday. Instead, family and community members gathered to honor the girl who went missing in December.
More than 50 people gathered at a wooden pavilion where they prayed and shared songs in honor of Lina who disappeared from a playground on Dec. 20, theSan Antonio Express-Newsreports.
“Today is to remember and pray for Lina,” said Riaz Sardar Khil, Lina’s father, according to the newspaper. “We have not forgotten her. Today is to (remind) law enforcement officers that now is two months, and we don’t have Lina with us.”
In late December, Lina was playing at the playground where she lived with her family when her mother left for a brief amount of time. When she returned, police say, her daughter was gone.
San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said Lina was not left alone because there were other parents with their children at the playground when her mother walked away.
Since then, multiple law enforcement agencies have searched for the girl around the apartment complex, as well as sending elite divers to search for her in a creek about two miles from her home,the paper reported.
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At a prayer service earlier this month, San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg called Lina a “daughter of San Antonio.”
“So long as she is not here with us,” Nirenberg said, “the search will continue, and it will extend to the farthest reach that we need it to go.”
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“It is a lot of money that could get Lina back but what I think is, we don’t need money,” Lina’s father said, according to theExpress-News. “Just please feel our pain and give back Lina. Please pray for Lina.”
Anyone with information on Lina’s case is asked to contact the San Antonio Police Department’s Missing Persons Unit at 210-207-7660 or Crime Stoppers at 210-224-7867.
source: people.com
