While searching for a missing person in the Australian Outback, a dead woman has been found. The body, discovered in the Palmer Valley area south of the city of Alice Springs, was probably Claire Hockridge, police said in the Northern Territory. The identification of the dead was not yet completed, they said. Further details have not been announced so far.
Sunday night, 52-year-old Tamra McBeath-Riley was discovered living in a helicopter search in the Stuarts Well area south of the city of Alice Springs. On Tuesday, a rancher found the Australian Phu Tran in Palmer Valley. According to police, the 40-year-old had drunk from waterholes to keep himself alive. He was "slightly disoriented" but overall in "good shape".
According to police and local media reports, three acquaintances and a dog were on a car trip on November 19, but their SUV got stuck in the riverbed of the Finke River. The group had been trying to save their vehicle for three days. Then the three moved on to seek protection elsewhere. In the area it can get up to 40 degrees Celsius at this time of the year.
In search of help, they separated according to the information. McBeath-Riley told ABC that after the car crash, she and her two friends first ate biscuits and drank vodka drinks and water from a cattle waterhole.
