NSW Police rescue woman trapped in abandoned mine shaft for two days
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New South Wales Police say a woman who was rescued yesterday after spending two days trapped in an abandoned mineshaft in the state's north-west is lucky to be alive.
The 26-year-old woman was reported missing from a camp in Lightning Ridge, near the Queensland border, on Friday night.
Temperatures in the area exceeded 40 degrees Celsius on Saturday.
Police from Castlereagh Local Area Command used a drone to search for the woman, who was located at the base of an eight-metre mine shaft at about 10:20am on Sunday.
Officers from the Western Region Rescue Unit used a pulley and harness system to bring the woman to the surface.
She was taken to Lightning Ridge Hospital in a stable condition.
The area, about 700 kilometres north-west of Sydney, is remote and known for opal mining.
Police have been told the woman had gone for a late-night walk before tripping and falling down the shaft.
Topics: police, missing-person, lightning-ridge-2834
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