In Australia, a German backpacker is found after 12 days missing
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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.
Carolina Wilga in a van outside a general store in the small agricultural community of Beacon, northeast of Perth on June 29. Photo: AFP/Western Australian Police Force
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.
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