Autistic boy who went missing from a car park was found hundreds of kilometres away after HITCH-HIKING to the Blue Mountains
- A missing autistic teenager was found after hitch-hiking to the Blue Mountains
- Darshan Siegel walked away from his mother in Heatherbrae on Tuesday night
- The 13-year-old was found at a Katoomba school more than 200 kilometres away
- Find comes as William Callaghan was found after two days in Victorian bushland
A teenage boy on the autism spectrum has been found at a school in Sydney's Blue Mountains after he went missing in the NSW Hunter region.
Darshan Siegel, 13, walked off from a car park in the Port Stephens area while travelling from the north coast to the Blue Mountains with his mother.
The pair had stopped for a rest in Heatherbrae, at the intersection of the Pacific Highway and Masonite Road, about 8.30pm on Tuesday.
NSW Police were alerted just after 10.30pm that the boy was missing and began a search with a dog squad but could not find him.
Darshan Siegel was found at a Katoomba high school on Wednesday after going missing in Heatherbrae on Tuesday night
The search resumed in the area early on Wednesday, before the teenager was found more than 200 kilometres away at a Katoomba high school around 8.30am.
Superintendent Chad Gillies on Wednesday told reporters the boy had hitch-hiked to Sydney before travelling by train to his Katoomba school.
He then waited at school and is now in the care of relatives.
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'We'd like to speak to the driver - not that they've done anything wrong by stretch of the imagination but I think it's important for us to understand how he came to get there, that may fill in a few more puzzles,' Supt Gillies said.
The news comes as autistic non-verbal teenager William Callaghan was miraculously found alive after two days stranded in the remote Victorian wilderness.
More than 450 people, including hundreds of volunteers, desperately combed rugged terrain surrounding the summit of Mount Disappointment after he ran off from his family on Monday afternoon.
William Callaghan (left) is comforted at the base camp at Mount Disappointment after being found
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