India, May 17 -- Police are trying to hunt down those behind sawed off and carried away the larger-than-life statue of US First Lady Melania Trump in her hometown of Sevnica in Slovenia.

Police are currently investigating the incident.

The statue was unveiled in 2020 during Donald Trump's first tenure as President.

Now, the feet and the two-metre-tall tree stump of the statue are only present at the venue.

Local police say they are treating "Melania's" disappearance as "theft" and have launched an investigation, reported BBC.

This is not the first time Melania Trump's statue met such a fate in the Slovenian town.

Her first statue was unveiled in July 2019 when it was carved single piece of wood by a chainsaw-wielding local artisan c...