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Police are hunting a couple who have vanished
abandoning two young children.
Inga Losiene and Farik Farukh, both 32, left her
children, aged six and 11, with babysitters at the
weekend.
Ms Losiene, who is from Lithuania, said she was
going shopping near her home in Southend, Essex,
last Friday.
Mr Farukh, an Iraqi Kurd, disappeared from the
seafront pub where he works two days later.
An Essex Police spokesman said: "We are treating
them as missing and there is nothing to suggest
anything sinister, but we can't rule anything out."
Car Found in Hunt for Missing Couple
By Emily Dennis, PA
Police today said they had found a car belonging to
a couple who have vanished, abandoning two children.
Detectives are carrying out forensic tests on a
blue-grey Rover belonging to Farik Farukh found in
Suffolk yesterday.
Mr Farukh, an Iraqi Kurd, has not been seen since he
left his partner’s children with a babysitter on
Sunday, saying he would collect them after work at a
pub.
When he did not show up, the alarm was raised and it
was discovered that their mother, Inga Losiene, had
disappeared two days earlier.
Ms Losiene, 32, who is from Lithuania, was last seen
shopping near her home in Southend, Essex, last
Friday.
Police today said they were growing “increasingly
concerned” for the couple, who shared a house in
York Road, Southend.
Detectives are speaking to the children, a girl aged
11 and a boy aged six, in a bid to trace the pair.
The youngsters are currently being cared for by
relatives.
Police said Mr Farukh’s car had been found beside
the A14 near Trimley in Suffolk yesterday and is
undergoing forensic tests.
Officers said it was known Mr Farukh, 32, collected
the children from school in Southend on Friday
afternoon and drove them to Ipswich.
They said that as he drove back the next morning the
car broke down and Mr Farukh had to flag down an
elderly couple to get a lift to Felixstowe railway
station.
An Essex Police spokesman said: “We are treating
them as missing and there is nothing to suggest
anything sinister, but we can’t rule anything out.”
Ms Losiene is described as 5ft 4ins to 5ft 8ins
tall, with shoulder length dyed blonde hair and blue
eyes. She may be wearing a gold necklace. Mr Farukh
is of Middle Eastern appearance with dark hair.
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