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Posted: Friday 25 January, 2008 at 10:49 AM
Logon to vibesbvi.com... British Virgin Islands News 
    Foul Play Ruled out in Wu’s Disappearance
     
    By Suelika N. Buchanan
     

    29 year old Benjamin Wu
    (Tortola; BVI):
    Local Police have ruled out foul-play as a possibility in the disappearance of Benjamin Wu, an Asian-American who was reported missing since January 12, 2008.
     
    He was last seen by a construction worker at the Long Bay Beach in Tortola at around 9:30 a.m. heading west towards Belmont, according to his cousin David… "A builder on the beach saw Benjamin in the morning. He worked until 4 p.m. but he didn’t see him come back," he said.
     
    Wu, 29, hails from Connecticut and came to the BVI to attend a wedding in Tortola when he disappeared.
     
    Last Friday, January 18, Wu’s roommate and some members of his family joined the Virgin Islands Search and Rescue searching for their loved one in the Long Bay Beach area.
     
    Police boats and a US Coast Guard thermal imaging helicopter searched the area thoroughly with no results.
     
    Inspector Murray said that they established that Wu had been on the rocks near Long Bay Beach several days after he disappeared.  ~~Adz:Right~~
     
    He also said that they did a manual search of the area, deployed the US Coast Guard helicopter with thermal imaging, to ascertain if Wu may still be alive on land and also deployed the police marine boat to establish if anything could be found along the shoreline.
     
    However, since the last sighting of Wu places him on the rocks, Murray said that any search and rescue would have been irrelevant at this time because he wouldn’t have survived three days in the water.
     
    Wu’s cousin David said that Wu did not know how to swim.
     
    It is presumed that Wu had fallen while climbing on some rocks overlooking a cove near Long Bay beach.
     
    The only sign of him since then has been his iPod, which washed up on the beach late last week.
     
    Inspector Murray said that the most likely scenario was death by drowning, and ruled out any foul play.
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