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FBI: Search for Chinese Scholar is Agency Priority

by Associated Press

   The FBI says the search for a visiting Chinese scholar missing from the
   University of Illinois is a national priority for the agency.

   Jon Holloway, assistant special agent in charge of criminal
   investigation at the Springfield FBI office, discussed the FBI's
   efforts Thursday night at a campus meeting about 26-year-old Yingying
   Zhang's disappearance.

   Holloway says updates are being regularly sent to the office of the
   FBI's acting director and U.S. field offices.

   Zhang was last seen on a surveillance video getting into a black Saturn
   Astra in Urbana on the afternoon of June 9. Police have labeled the
   case a kidnapping but haven't ruled out other scenarios.

   Earlier Thursday, her father Ronggao Zhang made an emotional appeal for
   his daughter's safe return in an interview with a Champaign , Ill.,
   newspaper.