Search for Aliya continues

For a third consecutive day, the search for Aliya Bulkan, who plunged off the Kaieteur Falls on Saturday morning, was unsuccessful.

Aliya Bulkan

A relative of the woman told Stabroek News last evening that the search party, which included Aliya’s father Rustum Bulkan, travelled to the area earlier yesterday but there were no signs of her. “There is nothing new,” the young woman’s mother Kamini Bulkan said, “No new development.”

On Saturday morning, Bulkan shocked a group of tourists who were visiting the attraction when she ran screaming and plunged off the waterfall.

A Korean woman, who was part of the touring party, witnessed the young woman’s leap over the edge. Aliya had recently graduated with honours from an American university and relatives said that they found it difficult to believe that she ended her life since she was not depressed.

Accompanied on the trip by a friend, she left home on Saturday “normal.” The friend told the family that Aliya was laughing and chatting during the trip and there was no indication that anything was wrong.