{"id":269684,"date":"2025-10-13T09:55:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T07:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/vistanews\/?p=269684"},"modified":"2025-10-13T17:41:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T15:41:01","slug":"welkom-woman-missing-for-five-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/vistanews\/welkom-woman-missing-for-five-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Welkom Woman Missing for Five Months"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A 32-year-old Welkom woman has disappeared without a trace. Anuschka Janine Saunders was reported missing five months ago, and her whereabouts remain a mystery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The missing person was last seen on Tuesday, 27 May, at about 17:20 in Welkom, after she informed her friend that she was going to the shop. She never returned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A missing persons file was registered. Efforts to find Saunders have proved unsuccessful. 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These include a cut on her left thumb, a scar on her foot, and tattoos on the inside of her forearms and her ring finger. She also has piercings on her stomach, and in her ears and tongue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Out of character<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a post on Facebook, her mother Monica Ras says she had allegedly gone to buy milk at around 17:20, and by 18:00 her phone was already switched off. Since then, she has not been seen again, and nothing has been heard from her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ras said on Facebook that it is completely out of character for her daughter to disappear without contacting her loved ones. 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