BISHKEK, September 6 (RIA Novosti) - A female American soldier from a U.S. military air base in Kyrgyzstan went missing Tuesday in the capital, Bishkek, a spokesman for the base said Wednesday.
The woman was last seen on Tuesday in a city mall after she left a group of fellow servicemen from the Manas Air Base while they were shopping.
Local police said they had no information about a lost American soldier.
"No one has yet notified law enforcement bodies about a lost U.S. citizen," said Sherkozi Mirzakarimov, the Central Asian's first deputy interior minister.
The U.S. has been renting an air base at Manas international airport in the south of the Kyrgyz capital since December 2001 as part of a U.S.-led anti-terrorist operation in Afghanistan. About 1,000 U.S. servicemen and several military transport aircraft are deployed there.
