Skip to main content
Home

Main navigation

  • Top stories
  • Health
  • Crime
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Tech
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Weird
  • 1-1-2
Image
sien-fokkinga
Tjitsina (Sien) Fokkinga - missing in Havelte (Picture: Politie) - Credit: Tjitsina (Sien) Fokkinga - missing in Havelte (Picture: Politie)
De Molenhof
Dementia
Havelte
missing person
nursing home
police
Sien Fokkinga
Thursday, 23 July 2015 - 08:25
Share this:
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • linkedin
  • whatsapp
  • reddit

Search for missing elderly lady with dementia

An 84 year old lady, who is suffering from a form of dementia, disappeared from a nursing home in Havelte on Tuesday afternoon. The police launched a search for her, but by late Wednesday she still had not been found. Mrs. Sien Fokkinga walked out of De Molenhof nursing home in Havelte around 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday. According to the police, the lady often takes walks in the wooded area between Darp, Uffelte and Wasperveen, but when she had not returned by Tuesday evening, a search was launched. The police used several tools in the search of this lady, including a helicopter, all terrain vehicles from the Marechaussee and a blood hound. On Wednesday night they deployed horses to help in the search. Mrs. Fokkinga is 1.65 meters tall with gray hair. She was wearing a blue t-shirt, three quarter jeans and a Norwegian vest at the time of her disappearance. She likely also had her walking stick with her. She wears a pair of titanium glasses. The police spread her picture and details through media and social media, and this resulted in several tips. But so far none of these tips led to any concrete results.

Follow us:

Latest stories

  • Radboud University researchers may have a vaccine that fights the spread of malaria
  • Transavia blacklists passenger who AirDropped plane crash photo before flight
  • Dutch farmers group calls off "hardest demonstrations" in goodwill gesture to Cabinet
  • Online Rembrandt museum selling Night Watch NFTs in fundraiser
  • Schiphol brings all passengers inside amid rising temps; Firefighters at the ready
  • No, camel poop does not help cure diarrhea, scientists say

Top stories

  • Dutch farmers group calls off "hardest demonstrations" in goodwill gesture to Cabinet
  • Code Yellow in Netherlands as thermometers top 30 degrees Celsius
  • Renting out rooms simplified in Eindhoven to help students
  • Hundreds protest against anti-LGBTQIA+ violence in Amsterdam
  • Robbers target Ajax captain Dusan Tadic outside of his Amsterdam home
  • Supermarket prices up 18.5% in less than a year

© 2012-2022, NL Times, All rights reserved.

Footer menu

  • Privacy
  • Contact
  • Partner content