The search continues to find Alexandra Martine Diengo Lumbayi who has been missing for five days.
• Also read: Disappearance: Trois-Rivières police are asking for help from the population to locate a 21-year-old young woman
The disappearance of the 21-year-old young woman arouses concern among those close to her, including Jeanne-Françoise de Chantal Ndongo. “It worries us deeply because we don’t know where she is. We’ve been looking for her for 5 days and she can’t be reached,” explains Alexandra’s friend Martine Diengo Lumbayi.
With other students from the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières (UQTR), she distributed posters of her disappearance in businesses near Saint-Quentin Island. “We just want her to be found,” explains her friend.
Originally from Congo, Alexandra Martine Diengo Lumbayi is a bachelor’s student in business administration at UQTR.
The Trois-Rivières police published photos of the young woman captured by surveillance cameras at the gatehouse on Saint-Quentin Island. His roommate dropped him off at the entrance to the canoe club, near Chemin de l’Île Saint-Christophe, in the afternoon of October 2. The footage shows her alone, as she pays at the gatehouse and then walks towards a path between 4:11 p.m. and 4:14 p.m.
The young woman’s mother, Rosemine Ndjondo, who lives in Congo, published a video on social networks to advance the investigation. “I would ask anyone who might have any news, any clues, anything, that might help us,” she begged.
Faced with the distance that separates her from this mystery, she expresses her helplessness “Mom won’t stop looking for you!”, she cries, explaining that she dreamed of a better life for her daughter in Canada.
After searches by divers and the Sûreté du Québec helicopter on Sunday, a search was carried out by Trois-Rivières police officers at the marina on Saint-Quentin Island on Monday, to validate the information received. The police confirm that during their searches over the weekend they found a shoe near the water.
“Before adhering to this thesis, we will try to have the shoe evaluated, in short DNA, to find out if it was indeed a shoe that could have belonged to the victim,” explains the spokesperson for the Trois-Rivières police, Luc Mongrain.
Research will also be carried out by some of the 180 members of the Association of Congolese Students of UQTR. Its president Magloire Bidingi affirms that a search is being organized: “We are going to make a descent around the wooded area of St-Quentin Island, if we can perhaps find elements that can help the progress of the investigation . But we are in the process of organizing it so that it is done in a coordinated and supervised manner.”
The Trois-Rivières police are not ruling out any hypothesis for the moment to explain this disappearance and are asking the public to provide them with any information that could help investigators locate Alexandra Martine Diengo Lumbayi. The police also warn the public against misinformation on social networks.
“From the outset, we tell people not to buy into these false rumors. The official information is released by us, the Trois-Rivières police,” concludes Sergeant Mongrain.
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