15/12/2003

Waterways searched as hunt for missing woman continues

Police on both sides of the border have appealed for information after a woman went missing from her Co Tyrone home.

Attracta Harron, 65, was last seen at around 9.30am on Thursday when she went to Mass at Murlough Chapel in Lifford, in Co Donegal.

The woman is described as being 5ft 2ins, with shoulder length blonde hair. She was wearing a red duffle-style coat and grey trousers at the time of her disappearance.

The PSNI are being helped in their search by members of the Foyle and Strabane search and rescue team as well as the Garda underwater search team.

The rescue team is currently scouring the waterways in and around Counties Tyrone and Donegal for the missing woman.

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