Detroit, MI - October 3 - Detroit Police searching for a missing 2-year-old girl are also desperately searching for someone who speaks Bengali, the main language of Bangladesh.

An Amber Alert has been issued for Tangena Hussain, who was last seen at the Marathon gas station at Greenfield and 8 Mile roads at 9:30 p.m. Thursday.

Police are having a problem communicating with the last person to see Tangena, her mother’s boyfriend, who’s from Bangladesh, Detroit Police Sgt. Maquis Scott said this morning. All three live together in Hamtramck, he added.

“We need a Bangladesh interpreter,” Scott said. “We’re having a language problem, so we’re having a hard time communicating with him.”

Tangena’s mother was at work and her boyfriend was watching the little girl when she disappeared, Scott said. The boyfriend told investigators he left Tangena in the car with the doors locked in the gas station parking lot while he went inside to make a purchase, but she was missing when he came back out. A search around the gas station has proved fruitless, but investigators are focusing on other areas in the city, Scott said this morning.

Tangena has chin-length black hair, brown eyes, is about 3 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 34 pounds. She has a scar from a burn on her upper lip and chin. She was wearing a brown, long-sleeved T-shirt with a cartoon picture on the front, white nylon cargo pants and gold sandals.

Anyone with information about the little girl or who can speak Bengali is asked to call the Detroit Police at 313-596-1240.