Malaysian
police said Thursday they had arrested two men over the disappearance of a
30-year-old French woman who was last reported seen three months ago on a
resort island.
Stephanie Foray, a 30-year-old civil servant, had arrived in
the country on May 10 and boarded a ferry later that day to Tioman island off
the east coast of peninsular Malaysia, press reports here have said.
"Two people have been arrested for investigations. We
are intensifying the search for the French woman," Mohamad Bakri Zinin,
director of the federal criminal investigation department, told AFP.
He declined to provide further details on the case.
The New Straits Times newspaper reported the two men arrested
were a 44-year-old owner of a Tioman chalet and his cousin. It quoted witnesses
as saying Foray had been seen in the company of the two men.
The second man was found in possession of Foray's handphone
and Sri Lankan currency, it said.
Foray left France in November last year on a holiday that took
her to India and Sri Lanka before she came to Malaysia on May 5, local press
reports said.
Her family lost contact with her on May 8 and the French
embassy in Malaysia subsequently put out a missing person alert.
Source : AFP
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