A woman survived 12 days stranded in Australia’s outback. Her two friends are still missing

When three friends set off for a drive through the Australian outback last month, the few provisions they packed – beef noodles, biscuits and some cans of vodka – indicated they didn’t expect to be gone long.For three days, Tamra McBeath-Riley, 52, Claire Hockridge, 46, and Phu Tran, 40, tried to dig it out, surviving off what little they had with them in hopes they would soon be back on the road, the BBC reported.

She was rescued Sunday after Australian police deployed helicopters to search for the group. But Hockridge and Tran have not been found.McBeath-Riley told reporters outside a hospital where she was treated for dehydration Monday that when help arrived, she figured Hockridge and Tran were also safe. Now that she knows they’re still missing, “I’m worried to death,” she said.

“Because of the terrain that they have gone missing in, and because we don’t have a particularly focused area, we are still doing the helicopters,” she told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. “It’s quite a diverse terrain – there’s sandy dunes, there’s hard clay, there’s areas of dense trees but there is also rocks and ranges in the area as well.”

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