Another Japanese missing from Agra
Vijay Upadhyay
Agra. Often called the tourist haven, Agra is now fast gaining notoriety of being a 'black hole' for tourists as two Japanese tourists have been reported missing from this city of Taj in the past four months.
Following the disappearance of a Japanese student Kota Shinozaki from Agra in September, the Agra police has been baffled yet again by the disappearance of another Japanese student Asai Kotu Hiro this week from Taj Mahal.
According to Rajesh Dwivedi, Station Officer, Tajganj Police Station, Kotu Hiro, a student in Japan, had arrived in Agra on January 1 in a taxi hired from Delhi based Incredible Travel Agency and had booked a room in hotel Apollo on the Fatehabad Road. He left the hotel to walk a short distance down to the Taj Mahal but did not return.
Worried about his well-being, the taxi-driver informed the hotel manager and his travel agency who immediately began a search for Kotu Hiro in Varanasi, which is the most likely destination where the local touts could have lured him from the Taj Mahal.
Unable to find the tourist through their own sources, the hotel manager and the travel agency finally informed the police on Jan 3, who have now begun a search for him at the usual haunts of the local touts who have been known to establish 'friendship' with Japanese tourists and mislead them into changing their itinerary.
He said that the police have registered a missing persons report in the Taj Ganj police station on the information of the taxi driver Arun and is sendiang a team to search for the tourist in Varanasi, where he was supposed to go in a train from the Tundla railway station.
Agra. Often called the tourist haven, Agra is now fast gaining notoriety of being a 'black hole' for tourists as two Japanese tourists have been reported missing from this city of Taj in the past four months.
Following the disappearance of a Japanese student Kota Shinozaki from Agra in September, the Agra police has been baffled yet again by the disappearance of another Japanese student Asai Kotu Hiro this week from Taj Mahal.
According to Rajesh Dwivedi, Station Officer, Tajganj Police Station, Kotu Hiro, a student in Japan, had arrived in Agra on January 1 in a taxi hired from Delhi based Incredible Travel Agency and had booked a room in hotel Apollo on the Fatehabad Road. He left the hotel to walk a short distance down to the Taj Mahal but did not return.
Worried about his well-being, the taxi-driver informed the hotel manager and his travel agency who immediately began a search for Kotu Hiro in Varanasi, which is the most likely destination where the local touts could have lured him from the Taj Mahal.
Unable to find the tourist through their own sources, the hotel manager and the travel agency finally informed the police on Jan 3, who have now begun a search for him at the usual haunts of the local touts who have been known to establish 'friendship' with Japanese tourists and mislead them into changing their itinerary.
He said that the police have registered a missing persons report in the Taj Ganj police station on the information of the taxi driver Arun and is sendiang a team to search for the tourist in Varanasi, where he was supposed to go in a train from the Tundla railway station.
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