Mumbai: Iceland`s First Lady gave some
anxious moments to the Mumbai police when she went
incommunicado for a few hours from her suite at Hotel Trident.
Dorrit Moussaieff, wife of Iceland President Olafur
Ragnar Grimsson, went "missing" for six hours from the hotel
on Monday, following which police were put on alert.
"We were about to launch a manhunt for the President`s
wife across the city, when she walked into the hotel with
shopping bags," a senior officer at Marine Drive police
station said.
Dorrit, he told a news agency, had gone for shopping and had
visited a spa.
The President and his wife, on an official visit to
the country, had made a low-key stopover in the city and
attended a dinner at Raj Bhavan on January 12.
While Dorrit arrived in Mumbai on Monday morning, the
President had reached later in the evening.
At around 1130 hours, Dorrit suddenly disappeared from
her suite. "A team of around 25 policemen deployed for her
immediately informed us at the police station after which more
men were pressed into action," the official said.
Sources in Mumbai police`s Protection Branch said as
the First Lady did not want a heavy police escort only a few
from the Branch accompanied her. The matter was a closely
guarded secret and even policemen deployed for her security
did not get a whiff of it.
PTI
