Fadumo Abdi, 45,Missing [FOUND SAFE] WESTERVILLE, Ohio

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Active Search Underway For Missing Woman

Friday, May 02, 2008 - 05:04 PM

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WESTERVILLE, Ohio -- An active search is underway for a woman who disappeared on Thursday night.

Police are searching land and water at Sharon Woods Metro Park near Westerville, NBC 4's Ana Jackson reported.

Fadumo Abdi's vehicle was found abandoned at the park at about 10 p.m. Thursday. Officers who discovered the vehicle looked up her registration and called her family to notify them of the vehicle's location, but her relatives said they had not seen her.

Officers began searching the park and nearby bodies of water using K-9 units, dive teams and the police helicopter. Police said that they do not believe foul play is involved.

Abdi is described as a 45-year-old woman, 5 feet 5 inches tall, weighing 130 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. She is a mother of four children.

Anyone with information is asked to call police at 614-885-3777.

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Missing Woman's Car Found Abandoned At Park
Friday, May 2, 2008 4:42 PM
Updated: Friday, May 2, 2008 07:11 PM
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WESTERVILLE, Ohio — Police on Friday asked the public for help in locating a woman whose vehicle was found abandoned at a park.

The car belonging to Fadumo H. Abdi was discovered at Sharon Woods Metro Park, located off Cleveland Avenue, on Thursday evening, according to a release from the FBI.

Abdi, 45, of Columbus, has yet to be found.

Sharon Township police, along with other law enforcement agencies, were involved in the search.

Rescue crews, including a dive team, spent the day Friday searching the park's more than 700 acres, 10TV's Brittany Westbrook reported.

The search was suspended Friday afternoon as storms and rain approached central Ohio.

Abdi is about 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighs 130 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes.

Anyone with information about her was asked to contact Sharon Township Police at 614-885-3777.
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NBC 4
updated 9 minutes ago

WESTERVILLE, Ohio -- An active search is underway for a woman who disappeared on Thursday night.

Police are searching land and water at Sharon Woods Metro Park near Westerville, NBC 4's Ana Jackson reported.

Fadumo Abdi's vehicle was found abandoned at the park at about 10 p.m. Thursday. Officers who discovered the vehicle looked up her registration and called her family to notify them of the vehicle's location, but her relatives said they had not seen her.

Officers began searching the park and nearby bodies of water using K-9 units, dive teams and the police helicopter. Police said that they do not believe foul play is involved.

Abdi is described as a 45-year-old woman, 5 feet 5 inches tall, weighing 130 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. She is a mother of four children.

Anyone with information is asked to call police at 614-885-3777.

Stay with NBC 4 and refresh nbc4i.com for additional information.
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Missing Woman Found Alive In Metro Park
Saturday, May 3, 2008 1:10 PM
Updated: Saturday, May 3, 2008 05:31 PM

WESTERVILLE, Ohio — A woman who disappeared inside Sharon Woods Metro Park earlier this week was found alive on Saturday.

The car belonging to Fadumo Abdi was found abandoned inside the park on Thursday, 10TV's Glenn McEntyre reported.

Police and search crews spent most of Friday searching for Abdi, 45, until weather suspended the search.

They resumed the search early Saturday morning. Dozens of family members, along with others from the Somali community who did not know Adbi, turned out to help with the search.

Authorities said a group of searchers found Abdi inside the park at about 12:30 p.m.

Using translators and radios, they directed rangers and other rescuers to Abdi's location, McEntyre reported.

Through a translator, one of the men who found Abdi explained what he saw.

"I felt that she was dead, but then when we went ahead and got to her we saw that she was alive," Hussein Barre said.

Barre said Adbi was sitting under a tree, McEntyre reported.

"She was shaking," he said. "She was very shaky."

Zahra Mire, who identified herself as Abdi's cousin, said she and her family were up all night worrying about the search.

"I didn't sleep since she was missing," Mire said. "We were crying all night."

Authorities said Abdi did not appear to be hurt, but was taken by ambulance to a hospital, McEntyre reported.

Police said they did not know how or why Abdi ended up in the woods.

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