USF doctoral students vanish as family says disappearance is 'very suspicious' and 'unusual'

Two doctoral students astatine the University of South Florida person been missing for astir a week, prompting constabulary to crook to the nationalist successful hopes of uncovering the couple.

Zamil Limon and Nahida Bristy, some 27, were past seen separately connected April 16 successful Tampa, Florida, according to the University of South Florida Police Department (USFPD) connected Tuesday.

Limon, a USF doctoral pupil pursuing a grade successful geography and biology subject and policy, was past seen astatine his location astir 9 a.m.

Bristy, a USF doctoral pupil studying chemic engineering, was past seen astir 10 a.m. connected the USF Tampa field astatine the NES Building.

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Nahida Bristy, a USF doctoral pupil studying chemic engineering, was past seen astir 10 a.m. connected April 16 connected the USF Tampa field astatine the NES Building. (University of South Florida Police Department)

A household person notified constabulary connected April 17 astatine astir 4:50 p.m. aft interest grew implicit being incapable to interaction some Limon and Bristy.

Both person since been added to the authorities and nationalist missing persons' databases, constabulary said.

Zamil Limon, a USF doctoral pupil pursuing a grade successful geography and biology subject and policy, was past seen astatine his location astir 9 a.m. connected April 16. (University of South Florida Police Department)

Limon’s member told FOX 13 that the concern is highly unusual, calling the doctoral students "responsible and punctual."

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"He is simply a precise liable and punctual person, and that's wherefore the concern is truthful unpredictable and antithetic to us… like, and precise suspicious," Zubaer Ahmed, Limon’s younger member successful Bangladesh, told the outlet.

"We’re successful heavy symptom and [it's a] devastating situation," helium said.

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Ahmed spoke to his member conscionable past Monday and said that helium shared that helium would beryllium rather engaged moving connected his thesis. Limon’s research, his member said, focuses astir utilizing generative AI to survey Florida’s shrinking wetlands.

Ahmed said Limon and Bristy were discussing perchance getting joined successful the aboriginal but were focused connected their education.

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"Another important constituent that is they talked astir having a aboriginal together, but they are not that superior astir it. Both of them are reasoning about, whether we tin wed together, and they are discussing that," helium said.

University of South Florida Police Department Public Information Officer Larry McKinnon told FOX 13 that foul play is not suspected astatine this constituent of the probe for the missing assemblage students. (FOX 13)

USF Public Information Officer Larry McKinnon told FOX 13 that "no chromatic would beryllium near unturned" successful the hunt for Limon and Bristy, though authorities presently spot nary signs of foul play.

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"Everybody internally is evidently precise concerned, arsenic we are concerned. It's not emblematic of their behavior, they're postgraduate students," McKinnon said. "We don’t person accusation that determination is foul play oregon suspicious quality astatine this point."

"When we get to this constituent wherever we aren’t having occurrence successful locating them, past our adjacent champion root is the public. That’s wherever we are at," helium said. "Everybody's hoping for a affirmative result connected this. And that's wherefore we're taking it precise earnestly and making definite we permission nary stones unturned to effort to find them."

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Detectives with the USFPD and the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office are investigating. Anyone with accusation is asked to telephone USFPD astatine 813-974-2628.

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office and USFP for further information.