Search continues for missing KZN physiotherapist

The family of Pietermaritzburg physiotherapist, Shaista Naipal, who has been missing since Friday evening has appealed for help in searching for her, Maritzburg Sun reports.

Naipal, 28, last spoke to her family on Friday evening saying that she was going away to help a friend and would return in a few days.

“Her cellphone has been switched off and we have since retrieved her car that she had left at the Medi-Clinic parking lot where she worked. She was last seen at the hospital. She sounded frantic when she spoke to me last on Friday. She didn’t tell us who she was going to be with and we have checked with all her friends – most of whom are her colleagues – and they don’t know anything,” said her brother Nasteesh Naipal.

Shaista, formerly from Greytown,  was wearing blue jeans,  a grey hoodie and black and white takkies. She is 1,5 meters of slender built and has two tattoos – one on her left hand wrist of a chain with an Aum sign and the other on her left shoulder with feather and birds.

Nasteesh, said that the family was doing the best they can to find his sister, including hiring a private investigator.

“My mother is quite stressed at the moment and we working together. We have opened a case of missing persons at the Loop Street Police Station,” he said.

The family is appealing for anyone who has information regarding  Shaista Naipal to contact her brother Nasteesh on 081 047 5641, Pietermaritzburg Central SAPS on 033 8452424, Wendy on 064 6481577 or Tania on 084 8301031.