SEATTLE – A statue of Hiroshima bombing survivor Sadako Sasaki, which has stood for decades at Peace Park in Seattle’s University District, has been stolen, according to police.

The statue, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by artist Daryl Smith, was erected in 1990 on the north side of the University Bridge, after Quaker activist Floyd Schmoe funded the Peace Park project. Seattle police spokesperson Brian Pritchard said the city’s Parks and Recreation department filed a police report Friday for first-degree theft and malicious mischief.

Sasaki was a Japanese girl who survived the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bombings during World War II that killed hundreds of thousands of people. She went on to become a symbol of peace.

The statue of her is the city’s only outdoor monument honoring a woman historical figure, Axios reported last year.

Colleen Kimseylove, office manager at the nearby Quakers meeting house for the University Friends Meeting, said the statue disappeared overnight and was reported missing on Friday. The only part of the statue remaining was Sasaki’s feet.

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