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The search effort for a retired physician from Yakima missing in Kiev, Ukraine, is set to focus on a park in the city, searchers said Wednesday.

In a blog post, Dr. Jay Sloop’s son, Greg, said resources were being trained on Zamkova Gora, a heavily wooded urban park in the Ukrainian capital of 2.8 million people. He asked volunteers to assemble Thursday at 8 a.m. local time at the Seventh-day Adventist Church on Luk’yanovskaya Street.

“Ask anyone you know in Kiev to come out and search for Jay,” he wrote on the blog www.sloop.net/wordpress.

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