German backpacker found alive after 12 days missing in Australian outback
Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on July 12, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 22, 2026

Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on July 12, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 22, 2026

A German backpacker missing for 12 days in the Australian outback was found alive near Beacon, Western Australia, and is recovering in a Perth hospital.
SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australian authorities said they found alive a 26-year-old German backpacker who had been missing in a remote part of the country's northwest for almost two weeks.
Carolina Wilga, who vanished on June 29 from near the outback town of Beacon, located about 254 km (157 miles) north of Western Australia state's capital Perth, was located on a road in the region on Friday, local media reported.
Wilga was airlifted to a Perth hospital where she was recovering on Saturday, according to Australian Broadcasting Corp television.
"As you can imagine from the trauma she's suffered for the last few days, she's obviously been through a great deal," police inspector Martin Glynn said in televised remarks.
She had sustained some injuries and was "ravaged by mosquitoes" in the ordeal, Glynn said.
A large-scale search was initiated for Wilga after her vehicle was found abandoned in the state's sparsely populated Wheatbelt region, which spans 154,862 square km.
(Reporting by Sam McKeith in Sydney; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)
Carolina Wilga, a 26-year-old German backpacker, was found alive after being missing for almost two weeks.
Wilga vanished on June 29 from near the outback town of Beacon in Western Australia.
She had sustained some injuries and was described as being 'ravaged by mosquitoes' during her ordeal.
She was airlifted to a hospital in Perth, where she was recovering.
A large-scale search was launched after her vehicle was found abandoned in the Wheatbelt region.
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