SYDNEY: A young woman has been found alive after missing for five days in flood-hit Australian bushland.
Australian emergency responders said Monday a 26-year-old woman, Yang Chen found alive and in “surprisingly good spirits” after spending five days lost in the flood-hit bushland.
Citing the details of the incident they said Yang Chen went missing last Wednesday after her male walking partner lost sight of her at a cascade in the west of the popular Gold Coast in Queensland found alive.
#TallebudgeraValley – Paramedics attended to a location on Tallebudgera Creek Road at 11am for a female bushwalker reported missing for several days. The patient was in a stable condition and was transported to Robina Hospital. pic.twitter.com/fKmlHegny9
— Queensland Ambulance (@QldAmbulance) February 17, 2020
Media reports disclosed that the Australian police divers had joined the search for the Bond University student on Monday after heavy rainfall had earlier forced authorities to suspend the search.
Yang Chen lives on the Gold Coast, was found near the waterfall where she first went missing. A Queensland Ambulance Service official said the woman was shifted to a local hospital for treatment, added that her condition is out of danger.
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