Nicole Claire Ryan has been missing for two days in Gran Canaria – her family alerted the authorities overseas who have since launched a desperate search to find her
Police have launched a frantic search after an Irish woman vanished in Gran Canaria.
Nicole Claire Ryan has been missing for two days on the Spanish island. Her worried family contacted the authorities at the Civil Guard station in Puerto Rico.
The 46-year-old was last seen wearing a colourful animal print jumper and black trousers. Her loved ones reported her missing on December 22. The Civil Guard launched an “urgent” appeal and confirmed her nationality as Irish.
The Civil Guard force said: “The Civil Guard has launched a coordinated operation to search for and locate a person reported as missing in the area of Puerto Rico.
“We were alerted to the 46-year-old woman’s disappearance on December 22 by relatives who reported her missing at the Civil Guard station in Puerto Rico. The coordinated search involves citizen security units based in the town of Vecindario in the south-east of the island working with other security and emergency forces.
“The local police covering the municipality of Mogan which Puerto Rico forms part of have also been informed along with other police units so we can intensify the work that’s being done in the area where the woman was reported missing.”
As part of the appeal, the force also published an image of Nicole smiling. A message under the photo of her said in Spanish: “Nicole disappeared on December 22 in Puerto Rico in the municipality of Mogan. She is 46 years old and 1.67m (5ft4ins) tall, slim, fair-skinned with brown hair and green eyes.
“The clothes she was wearing when she was last seen was a multi-coloured animal print sweater, pink trousers and black trainers.” Anyone with information on Nicole’s whereabouts has been urged to ring the Civil Guard in Puerto Rico. No further information has been released at this time.
