Amreli man missing in Libya for two weeks

Rajkot: It’s been almost two weeks now that Umed Multani, a resident of Amreli district, has had any communication with his family in the taluka’s Kanchardi village.
Multani’s whereabouts are not known ever since the youth en route to Tripoli international airport on September 14 to return to India went missing in Libya along with seven other persons from Hyderabad.
Family members, who approached Amreli police on Tuesday to help them find their kin, said that Multani had been travelling to foreign countries for last 10 years in search of work and would return to India whenever his visa expired.
According to police officials, he had travelled to Qatar around two years ago and from there he travelled to Libya where he found work as a construction labourer in Brega. As his visa was to expire, Multani planned to fly home from Tripoli international airport along with seven other persons, but thereafter Multani went incommunicado.
Initially, they thought that he must have been quarantined in wake of Covid-19 pandemic, but later read in news about the seven other persons missing. They then started believing that Multani could have gone missing too.
“The family members have submitted an application about their kin missing in Libya. I will forward this application to the home department and the ministry of external affairs for further persuasion,” said Nirlipt Rai, superintendent of police, Amreli.
Multani’s relatives, in the meantime, have made several videos asking people to share if they get any information about him and have also circulated these on the social media.