The search continues for a 19-year-old woman from Surrey who has been missing for nearly a month.
Family and friends have put up posters around Bear Creek Park that say Simran Khattra was last seen on April 27 at 6:30 p.m. in Surrey, and was wearing a black hoodie and grey sweatpants at the time of her disappearance.
“We are still looking for her,” said RCMP Corp. Sarbjit Sangha.
“We’re following every lead that has come our way.”
It’s not clear where Khattra was going the night she went missing, or what time she expected to be home. Her father, Varinder Khattra, says her disappearance has taken a toll on his family, his three other daughters, and his wife.
He says Simran has a love for wrestling and hopes to become a police officer someday. She’s described as 5’3″, 159 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair. The RCMP says she was last seen on 88th Avenue in Surrey.
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Varinder says a few hours after Simran’s disappearance April 27th, friends and family began to raise questions as to why she wasn’t answering her phone.
“My middle daughter, she’s fifteen, she got the message from her friends, messages like ‘she’s not replied to the phone, she’s not replying, the ring is ongoing, but she’s not replying. Did you know about her?’,” he said.
He says police were unable to retrieve her phone while it was still active the evening she disappeared. And while it’s not clear how police ended up getting it, he says the phone is now in police custody.
“If they can’t get the phone location when the phone was on, what can they do? How can they find my daughter? If they can’t find the phone, how can they find my daughter?,” he said.
Varinder says concern for Simran’s safety is also elevated because she takes medication for seizures. Sangha says this is why her case was elevated to “high risk” missing person.
The family is now pleading for the public’s help in the search for their daughter, hoping for a safe return, nearly one month later.