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The reward for information about Elizabeth Laguna Salgado's whereabouts has jumped to $25,000.

A private donor pledged an additional $10,000 to the original $15,000 reward, Provo police announced Friday afternoon.

The 26-year-old Mexican woman, who was studying in Utah, hasn't been seen or heard from since she left class at the Nomen Global Language Center in downtown Provo the afternoon of April 16. Provo police say there is no evidence she was kidnapped, but they consider it worrisome that she hasn't made contact with anyone.

Salgado had just finished a Mormon mission in Mexico and was living with roommates in Provo. She had been in Utah only one month and spoke very little English before she mysteriously disappeared.

This is the second time the reward amount has increased. It started at $5,000, and contributions from a local company and an unnamed person allowed them to increase the reward to $15,000.

Salgado is described as 5-foot-4 to 5-foot-5, 120 to 130 pounds, with long black hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a denim jacket, blue jeans, black or brown knee-high boots, and was carrying a denim hand bag with red straps.

Anyone with information about the woman is asked to call Provo police at 801-852-6210 or 801-852-7307.

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