In Australia, a German backpacker is found after 12 days missing
Carolina Wilga, 26, was found ‘ravaged by mosquitoes’ on a bush track at the edge of a nature reserve
A member of the public found the 26-year-old on a bush track at the edge of a nature reserve, and she has been taken to hospital in Perth for treatment, police said.
“She’s been ravaged by mosquitoes. She’s obviously been through an amazing journey, a trauma, and no doubt will be a testimony demonstrating her bravery in the circumstances out there,” WA police inspector Martin Glynn told reporters.
“I think once we do hear her story, it will be a remarkable story.”
Television images showed her gingerly climbing the steps into a light turboprop plane to be flown out for medical treatment, wearing a long beige dress and a blue cardigan.
Wilga had been last seen on June 29 arriving in a Mitsubishi van at a general store in the small agricultural community of Beacon, northeast of Perth.