Jetlagged tourist sleeps off, gets separated from group

New Delhi: A 52-year-old French woman who went missing from the Indira Gandhi International Airport past midnight on Wednesday was traced this morning to a hotel in Paharganj.
Edith Lemmonier said she had dozed off from jetlag and was separated from her companions, a group of French Buddhists travelling to Dharamshala. Finding them gone, she checked into a hotel and was sleeping off her jetlag when police located her.
The group arrived in Delhi about 1:30 a.m. by a British Airways flight from London.
Soon after landing, Edith went to the Thomas Cook counter at the airport to exchange about 180 Euros for Indian currency. In her absence, group leader Simone Elizabeth asked all the members to board the vehicles that had been arranged by the travel agency.
When Edith returned she found nobody was there. "I thought they must be around and I sat down and dozed off because of jetlag," she told police.
On reaching the hotel and finding her missing, the group went back to the airport and informed police there. Announcements were made for her, but she apparently slept through them.
The airport area was scanned, taxi operators were questioned, and a message was flashed across the city. Police also tried calling up her mobile, but it hadn't been activated for local use.
Several police teams then visited hotels in Paharganj and Karol Bagh. In one such check they found an entry under her name at Hotel Lords at the Main Bazaar.
01/03/07 Aditya Kaul/Delhi Newsline

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