CANADIAN KAYAKER MISSING IN GERMANY

CTV.ca News Staff
Updated: Tue. Feb. 21 2006 11:34 PM ET
German police recovered a baseball cap Tuesday they say
belongs to a missing Nova Scotia woman.
Tiffany Alexandria Tanner, 20, a Dartmouth native,
mysteriously disappeared Sunday morning while kayaking
in the city of Hamm, where she had been working as an
au pair for a year.
A passerby turned the black cap in to police.
The hat has "Canada" on it and a maple leaf.
Tanner's mother and stepfather arrived in Germany Tuesday
and helped authorities in their search.
There are reports Tanner was also spotted on a nearby
bridge, giving her family hope, but adding another strange
twist in the disappearance.
"There was a report that came from one of the authorities
on the water.
He virtually said she wasn't in the water,"
uncle Darrel Fraser told CTV Atlantic.
"It's a positive fact she made it to shore, which we thought
she would. Having said that, it opens some questions.
Where is she now?"
Searchers found Tanner's capsized kayak after her
kayaking partners told police they last saw her paddling
under a bridge in the Datteln-Hamm canal.
She never came out the other side.
Tanner is a member of Dartmouth's Senobe Aquatic Club
in Dartmouth and has been paddling competitively for a
long time. S
he wasn't wearing a life-jacket Sunday, but should have
been able to swim back to the nearby shore if she had
fallen out, her family said.
Divers have not recovered anything from the water in
three days of searching.
Police aren't ruling out any scenarios, and have
suggested Tanner may have been kidnapped.
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IN GERMANY?