Shunghla Mashwani was on a family outing when she went missing, but rescuers found her the next day in the wilderness
A 10-year-old girl is being praised for surviving on her own for more than 24 hours in the Cascade mountain range inShunghla Mashwani lost track of her family on Sunday while crossing over a pedestrian bridge at the Cathedral Rock trailhead in the northern part of the Cle Elum River valley. That same day, she was reported missing.Just before they stopped for lunch, members of her extended family noticed she was missing from their large group.
The Kittitas sheriff’s department immediately deployed a search team consisting of people on the ground, police dogs, drones and helicopters. At about 3pm on Monday, two search team volunteers eventually found Shunghla alive with minor injuries, 1.5 miles away from where she was last seen. She was returned safely on an inflatable watercraft to her father., the Kittitas sheriff’s department called Shunghla “an extraordinarily resourceful and resilient 10-year-old”.
Shunghla told her family and rescuers that she got lost when she couldn’t find the footbridge her family used, but “she knew it was the right thing to follow the river”.
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