Gangtok (Sikkim): Police in Gangtok are yet to ascertain the whereabouts of a German tourist reported missing while returning from a trekking expedition in West Sikkim last week.
49-year-old Hans Obeymeyer, part of a five-member trekking expedition, went missing when the rest of the team returned from their four-day trek near Yuksom, DIG (Range) Akshay Sachdeva said.
"A search operation led by Geyzing sub-divisional police officer, Mrinalini Shrivastava, is in progress," Sachdeva said.
Sachdeva did not rule out the possibility of the tourist having slipped down the mountainside while the trekking team was on its way back.
"We have been searching for him for five days now with no success. It?s possible that he may have fallen down a mountain and died. However we will consider him missing until we recover his body," he said.
The other four members of the German trekking team, who had been detained by the police, were set free yesterday after they failed to provide any clue to Obeymeyer's whereabouts.
Sachdeva said that police did not suspect Obeymeyer's colleagues of having a hand in his mysterious disappearance.
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