German backpacker found alive after 12 days missing in Western Australian - video Dailymotion

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00:0012 days after going missing in the Western Australian bush, German backpacker Carolina

00:04Vilge was miraculously found alive. A passing motorist encountered the 26-year-old near a

00:10nature reserve on Friday afternoon, 24 kilometres west of where her vehicle had been abandoned.

00:17Police reported her as being ravaged by mosquitoes, but in surprisingly good health

00:21after the ordeal she'd been through. Carolina presented as exhausted, dehydrated and hungry.

00:28She had minor injuries such as cuts and bruises. Carolina was flown back to Perth at about 5.30pm

00:38where she is receiving further medical assistance. Carolina Vilge had last been seen entering a shop

00:45in the outback town of Beacon, about 250 kilometres north of Perth on June 29th. She had left her car

00:52after it got stuck in some rough terrain. The search for her involved helicopters and planes

00:58flying over the sparsely populated Wheatbelt region, an expanse of 154,862 square kilometres.

01:08While police saluted the young German's bravery and resilience, they also said her survival

01:12was down to luck, something she herself acknowledges.

01:15Look, she is still in disbelief that she was able to survive. In her mind, she had convinced

01:23herself that she was not going to be located. I mean, you know, 11 days out there is significant,

01:30so I'm sure she got to a point where she thought no one's coming.

01:34Police said that Carolina Vilge had been backpacking around the country for two years

01:39and had been working at mining sites in Western Australia.

German backpacker found alive after 12 days missing in Western Australian

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