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Wednesday, Oct 08, 2008
BEIRUT (AFP)–Two U.S. journalists have gone missing in Lebanon after checking out of their hotel, Lebanese security officials told AFP Wednesday.
“Since Oct. 1 we have lost trace of Taylor Luck and Holli Chmela,” one official said.
He said the pair arrived in Lebanon on Sept. 29 and checked out of their Beirut hotel the following day. Someone withdrew money with Luck’s credit card from an ATM machine in Beirut on Oct. 1, he said.
He said the U.S. embassy in Lebanon notified police that they had gone missing Tuesday. Neither have been reachable on their mobile phones, he added.
“We are actively looking for both,” the official said.
Another official said Luck, 23, and Chmela, 27, had been expected in Jordan last weekend.
A spokeswoman at the U.S. embassy wouldn’t comment on the report.
Reporters at the Jordan Times newspaper told AFP that Luck was a staff member and Chmela, whose Facebook page links her to the New York Times, had just completed an internship there.
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
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