Authorities including the FBI and SAPD's CSI unit searched a wooded area roughly one-half mile from where the girl disappeared.
Law enforcement officers block off an area while investigating a wooded area behind an apartment complex after receiving a credible tip on the possible whereabouts of Lina Khil, who went missing in December 2021.More than two years after she went missing, a tip on Thursday sent local and federal authorities on a search for Afghan refugee Lina Khil near where the 3-year-old disappeared on San Antonio’s North Side.Get the latest San Antonio news delivered to your inbox every morning.
The area has been searched several times since Lina’s disappearance, Guzman said, but the new tip set off a renewed search. SAPD detectives, at least one K-9, the SAPD Crime Scene Investigations Unit and the FBI searched the area on Thursday.As of Thursday afternoon, no evidence had been found, although FBI detectives at one point appeared to remove a long object from a shed before wrapping the structure with caution tape.
SAPD investigators told the Khil family the department had been at the scene since last night, and that they are currently waiting for the additional equipment “to see what’s under the dirt.”Law enforcement personnel gather along a greenway near The Helix apartment complex in the Medical Center.From the other side of the greenway, Lina’s father, Riaz Khil, watched the search with Allen and translator Lawang Marigal.
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