The Burnaby Now 

A young woman has gone missing during a shopping trip at Metropolis at Metrotown Saturday night.

A family member last saw 21-year-old Jaswinder Kaur Battu around 7:30 p.m., but they got separated.
They looked for her and contacted mall officials, who sent a message out over the public address system, with no results.

"A mall page was created," said Artie Chumpol, public and community relations manager with Metropolis at Metrotown.

"And our security guards did search the property for her."
Chumpol noted they have a different protocol if an adult goes missing, compared to what happens if a child goes missing. They have security cameras, but Chumpol didn't want to go into too much detail about what was on them. However, she did say that it didn't help with looking for Battu.

"They didn't find anything," she said.

Battu, who is from Washington State, has been visiting family in the area for several days.
They are concerned because she's not familiar with the Lower Mainland and might not be able to find her way to their home.

According to Cpl. Adele Lambert, spokesperson for the Burnaby RCMP, police are still investigating the case and haven't found any evidence that would connect Battu's disappearance to drugs or alcohol, nor to any other suspicious circumstances.

Battu is of East Indian heritage, about five feet two inches and weighs around 130 pounds. She has short, dark brown hair that's usually in a ponytail.

At the time she went missing, Battu was wearing a grey, three-quarter length jacket, grey pants and black shoes and carrying a black bag.