Today, Thursday, marks the sixth year of the mysterious disappearance of sisters Faloma and Maleina Luhk near a public school bus pavilion in As Teo, with still no trace of the children. <\/p>\n
In an interview yesterday, Elbert Quitugua, grandfather of the Lukh sisters, said they will offer prayers at the 6pm Mass today at Santa Soledad Church in Kagman. <\/p>\n
Quitugua said they are asking the community for their help to report to the Federal Bureau of Investigation should they have any information. <\/p>\n
He disclosed that the FBI has actually been briefing him on the issue, assuring him they are not making this matter a cold case. \u201cThey are still actively pursuing\u2026 doing diligent investigation. They are still not letting it sleep as a cold case. They are still pursuing the investigation,\u201d Quitugua said. <\/p>\n
He said last month a staff from the FBI support center in Honolulu came and assured him that they are still not stopping the investigation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are still actively doing something about it. Other than that, the family is struggling to find closure,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
The parents of the children have been separated. The mother moved to Virginia from Guam a year ago. The father was last reported staying in Pohnpei.<\/p>\n
Then 10-year-old Faloma and 9-year-old Maleina Luhk were last seen on May 25, 2011, waiting for a school bus near a bus stop pavilion in As Teo.<\/p>\n
The sisters\u2019 disappearance resulted in the most extensive search of missing persons in CNMI history for several months. A tracking dog from Hawaii was even flown to the island to conduct searches. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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