Woman rescued after 2 days stuck in Australia mine shaft


She apparently tripped and fell down the 8m deep shaft, police said, surviving despite daytime temperatures of more than 40 deg C.

SYDNEY: A woman has been pulled alive from an abandoned Australian mine shaft where she was trapped in searing heat for two days until a drone found her, police said Monday (Dec 18).

The 26-year-old vanished from her home in Lightning Ridge on Friday after going for a walk, sparking a large-scale search and rescue operation.

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