MARK BAS­SANT

Po­lice have in­ten­si­fied their search for 23-year-old An­drea Bharatt by fo­cussing their ef­forts near an aban­doned es­tate in Non­pariel Road, San­gre Grande, from ear­ly this morn­ing.

Po­lice of­fi­cers from the East­ern Di­vi­sion, along with help from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­i­ment, are scour­ing a forest­ed area in hopes of lo­cat­ing Bharatt.

An­drea Bharatt was kid­napped on Fri­day last, af­ter en­ter­ing a taxi with her co-work­er.

Af­ter drop­ping off her fe­male co-work­er, the men the ve­hi­cle al­leged­ly kid­napped the Ari­ma Mag­is­trate clerk who has not been seen since.

One of the al­leged kid­nap­pers had told her fa­ther on Fri­day night—when he fi­nal­ly got through to her cell­phone—that he “want­ed some mon­ey” or he would “cut off her ears and send it” to him.

Since then, four men were de­tained in East Trinidad for ques­tion­ing in re­la­tion to her dis­ap­pear­ance.

More on this sto­ry as it de­vel­ops.