Lina Sardar Khil was 3 when she barely escaped a terrorist attack during the fall of Afghanistan. While living in San Antonio, she went out to play and has since not been found.
Now, San Antonio police have released new surveillance footage showing the moment a three-year-old Afghan girl walked away from a playground before her mother reported her missing last year, Daily Mail reported.
Lina Sardar Khil was last seen at the playground inside her gated Villas Del Cabo apartment complex on December 20, 2021.
Her mother Zarmeena had said she was watching Lina play with her younger brother when she turned around for five minutes.
When she turned back, she could not see her daughter among the dozen-plus children.
Footage taken from a resident’s security camera now shows Lina playing with her mother and younger brother on the playground that day before she walked out the gate.
The young child looked both ways and twirled her hair before walking out of view.
It is the last known sighting of the young girl before she was reported missing from the playground on December 20, 2021
Local authorities working with FBI say they have received hundreds of tips, but nothing has panned out.
Det. German Fuentes, of the Special Victims Unit, added that he thought the circumstances of the young girl’s disappearance were suspicious, saying ‘children don’t just vanish into thin air.
‘To be honest, they are suspicious circumstances based on the child’s age, the fact that we have not found any evidence to indicate where she is at,’ he said in the video posted to the San Antonio Police Department’s Facebook page.
Fuentes added: ‘There is a critical witness somewhere out there. That person that knows something needs to come forward and disclose what they know.’
And, Volz said, the San Antonio Police Department will not give up on the search for the young immigrant.
