Chinese student in Illinois vanishes without a trace after getting in car

A Chinese student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has not been seen for five days after security footage showed her getting into a car on Friday.

"We are doing everything we can to search for her, including the use of resources offered by our partner law enforcement agencies and the FBI," UIUC Police Chief Jeff Christensen said on Tuesday.

Zhang Yingying, 26, a visiting scholar from Fujian, had been in the US for about a month. She was conducting research at UIUC's Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences and living in university housing.