Daily Express

Homes searched as man held in hunt for student

- By Paul Jeeves

POLICE were questionin­g a man last night in their hunt for a stu- dent missing for nearly a week.

It comes after a woman and two other men were bailed by detectives over the disappeara­nce of Somaiya Begum, 20.

The Leeds Beckett University undergradu­ate was last seen at her grandmothe­r’s house where she lived, along with an uncle, at 2pm on Saturday. Neighbours said she moved into the house in Bradford, West Yorks, after a row with her parents over an arranged marriage to a man from Pakistan.

Forensic teams and sniffer dogs searched the grandmothe­r’s house and a home nearby in the city’s Undercliff­e area, where Somaiya’s parents are said to live.

A middle-aged couple at the house refused to speak yesterday.

Officers were also searching shipping containers believed to belong to a relative on an industrial park nearby.

Det Chief Insp Marc Bowes, of West Yorkshire Police, appealed for informatio­n, including dashcam and CCTV footage.

He said: “We are extremely concerned for Somaiya’s welfare. Her disappeara­nce is completely out of character.”

Slimly built Somaiya was last seen wearing black jeans, a black top and black headscarf.

 ?? ?? Huge police search...missing Somaiya, 20
Huge police search...missing Somaiya, 20

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