A Southern California family is pleading for authorities to continue the search for a 22-year-old SFSU student, who went missing in Pacifica last week.
Hamzah Alsaudi, a senior on the wrestling team at San Francisco State University, disappeared Jan. 19 after taking a “cold plunge” in the ocean at Esplanade Beach in Pacifica. Teammates told police Alsaudi went in with two teammates but was swept away by a large wave.
“It’s very hard to accept that they stopped the search for a strong person like Hamzah,” said his mother, Nadia Shaheen. Police said rescue crews searched for Alsaudi until about 8:30 p.m. on the day he disappeared. He was never found and was declared missing.Sign up for NBC Bay Area’s Housing Deconstructed newsletter.
The Alsaudi family plans to continue the search despite authorities telling them they do not think anyone could survive more than a few hours in the conditions that morning, which included a high tide and very rough waves. “No one really wants to hear that. I want to be hopeful and I am hopeful that he's OK and we will find him,” his sister Yasra Alsaudi said.U.S. & World
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