The Woman From Nowhere

Hong Kong:
She appeared from nowhere on a rain-tossed morning, sitting naked on the shoreline, unable to speak.
Now she sits in a hospital bed, staring into space, mute and expressionless, her charts naming her simply as “Unknown”.
The mysterious appearance of the Western woman, aged between 35 and 45, last week beside the runway of a disused airport has put Hong Kong authorities in a bind, the police chief handling the unusual case said yesterday.
“We’ve tried interpreters in many different languages and sign-language experts but none of them appear to get though to her,” chief inspector Victor Ng told reporters.
Her discovery comes just weeks after the identity was revealed of the mystery “piano man” who was found wandering along a beach in England in April.
He was later unmasked as an attention-seeking German.
So far interpreters have been called in to speak to Hong Kong’s mysterious woman in English, French and Portuguese as well as Indian and Pakistani languages.
Ng said: “No crime has been committed, so there’s nothing to go on. We sent out the tracker dogs to see if they could find her clothes but they turned up nothing. It really is a difficult one –
Sept 8, 2005
Sapa-AFP