As of: February 17, 2024, 3:24 p.m
By: Lukas Schierlinger
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A large-scale search for a vacationer from Upper Bavaria has come to a tragic end in Austria.
She must have slipped while taking a walk.
Damüls/Munich – An 85-year-old woman from the Starnberg district was found dead in a ravine after a nighttime search operation in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg.
As the police announced on Saturday (February 17th), it had fallen around 180 meters over steep terrain in the Damüls area.
On Friday morning, the 85-year-old vacationer went for a walk.
After she didn't return, her son called her hotel that evening, which in turn alerted the emergency services.
Around 50 rescue workers, as well as search dogs, a helicopter and a thermal imaging drone were involved in the search.
Elaborate search for missing holidaymaker: woman fatally injured while walking
After around eight hours, the woman was found dead in a stream bed on Saturday night.
There was no snow on the hiking trail where the woman apparently slipped and fell, an alpine police officer told the
German Press Agency (dpa)
.
A mountain tour in Upper Bavaria recently ended fatally for a man.
Despite intensive efforts, the 58-year-old could only be found and recovered dead in the northern area of the large giant's head in the early hours of January 29th.
His girlfriend reported him missing.
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