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<\/p>\nASU student Ansh Arora vanished before picking up his parents at Phoenix Sky Harbor. Tempe police are investigating.<\/p>\n
TEMPE, Ariz. \u2014 A final-year Arizona State University student who was set to graduate this week has been missing since Saturday, leaving his family searching for answers after traveling from India to celebrate the milestone.<\/p>\n
Twenty-two-year-old Ansh Arora was last seen in Tempe around 5 p.m. Saturday and was reported missing to police the following morning, according to family members and authorities.<\/p>\n
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Arora\u2019s parents said they last spoke with their son shortly before boarding a flight from San Francisco to Phoenix on Saturday evening. They expected him to pick them up at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport after they landed around 9 p.m., but they were unable to reach him.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe landed at the airport fully expecting, and, you know, eager to meet Ansh, to hug him, to tell him how much we love him and how proud we are of him, and simply, as soon as we landed and switched our phones on, there was absolutely no way to contact,\u201d said Meghna Arora, Ansh\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt first we just were bewildered as to what has happened,\u201d she said. \u201cI mean, how could we just lose contact? We thought probably he was playing a joke on us or planning to surprise us. That was our initial reaction.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meghna Arora said the final conversation with her son focused on airport logistics.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just said that we are about to board the flight for Phoenix, and since there seems to be some issue with the luggage, just to track our luggage and help us,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd he said, \u2018No problem. I’ll pick you up, and I’ll help you do that.\u2019 So that was the last communication. It was short and simple, because it was more the logistics.\u201d<\/p>\n
Arora had spent the last several years studying supply chain management at Arizona State University. His family said he had made the dean\u2019s list twice and built a close circle of friends during his time in Arizona.<\/p>\n
Friends told 12News they had not noticed anything unusual before his disappearance.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe didn’t see anything abnormal with him,\u201d one friend said. \u201cHe was joyous as usual, nothing different than what we would normally see with other people. Yeah, I don’t know what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Tempe Police Department is investigating the case and asking anyone with information about Arora\u2019s whereabouts to come forward.<\/p>\n
His parents said they want their son to know they are focused only on bringing him home safely.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want you. Life without you is bad, please,\u201d Meghna Arora said. \u201cIf you’re watching this, come back. We love you. We’ll hug you, and that’s it. No questions asked. Nothing said, you are here.\u201d<\/p>\n
The family said they plan to remain in the United States as long as necessary and hope to return to India with their son.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ASU student Ansh Arora vanished before picking up his parents at Phoenix Sky Harbor. Tempe police are investigating.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":795689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-795688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116572671307326934","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}