Jordan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates announced Friday that it is closely and continuously following up with the relevant British authorities, through the Jordanian Embassy in London, on the incident of a missing Jordanian student in Colchester, Essex County.

The Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying that as soon as the students' family alerted the ministry, the British authorities were informed, and Jordan’s Embassy in London along with the Essex County Police and the citizen's family are keeping up on the matter in an effort to locate the missing person.

No further information were disclosed.

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Previously, Essex Police in England appealed for information to find a 21-year-old Jordanian has been missing since Dec. 22, 2022.

The police said, in a post on its official Facebook account, that Ahmed Dabour, who lives in Colchester, has been missing for 16 days.

“If you’ve seen him, are with him, or have any information about where he is please call us on 999 quoting incident 639 of 25 December,” the post added.

Essex Police said that he had left the “George Hotel on the High Street and took a train from the railway station to Stratford. From there he took a further train to Dover in Kent where he was seen on CCTV in the Costa Coffee.”

The police released CCTV footage of the day Ahmed went missing to show what he was wearing when he was last seen, adding that “we’re worried about Ahmed and need to find him to make sure he’s ok.”