Two of the three tourists have been rescued after surviving long two weeks in Australia’s arid outback on little more than vodka, groundwater and biscuits. The third person is still missing, police said Tuesday.
The three friends had set out to travel around the country’s vast sun-baked interior near Alice Springs on 19th November when their car became bogged down in a river bed.
After three days staying there and waiting for a rescue, they feared supplies were lessening and two of them started walking along a property fence line in the hope of finding assistance.
A local rancher had found the man, 40-year-old Phu Tran, “slightly disorientated” but in a “good condition” a two-day walk from the vehicle, Police said on Tuesday.
His finding came after Tamra McBeath-Riley, 52, was found on Sunday less than two kilometres from the same vehicle suffering from dehydration.
As said by McBeath-Riley, the trio- accompanied by their blue Staffordshire terrier Raya- had survived by drinking pre-mixed vodka drinks and water from a hole dug for cattle, eating biscuits and sheltering in a hole dug under her car.
But the third person, Claire Hockridge, 46, was still missing after splitting from Phu two days ago.Police said her colleagues resumed an aerial search.
While McBeath-Riley and Hockridge live in Alice Springs, Phu was visiting from elsewhere in Australia.
