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Police said a woman who was found in a remote Australian mountain range after going missing for almost two weeks was "dazed and unwell" but alive after suffering a snake bite in remote wilderness. She was last seen driving a hire car in the national park on Oct. 15. "We held grave concerns for the missing woman and [are] very glad she’s been found safe and reasonably well." The Snowy Mountains in Kosciuszko National Park in Jindabyne, Australia. Police said Sjoberg was was treated by paramedics at the scene for exposure and "what is believed to be a snake bite," before being taken to Cooma District Hospital in a stable condition.
Persons: Kiki, Sjoberg, Toby Lindsay, Martin Ollman, Lindsay Organizations: New South Wales Police, Monaro Police, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Police, Australian Museum Locations: New, Kosciuszko, Jindabyne, Australia, Cooma, Sydney
CNN —An Australian police officer has been charged with manslaughter after he tasered a 95-year-old woman with dementia in a nursing home. Clare Nowland, a great-grandmother, died in hospital a week after she was tasered at the home in May. A 33-year-old senior constable, Kristian White, is alleged to have tasered Nowland at the home after asking her to drop a steak knife she was holding. The other officer attempted to grab the knife, but Nowland is said to have moved towards them with her walker. Family friend Andrew Thaler said at the time that before the incident Nowland was frail and unable to stand unaided.
Persons: Clare Nowland, Kristian White, White, Nowland, “ Clare, Andrew Thaler Organizations: CNN, Police, New South Wales Police, Public Prosecutions, Monaro Police, Sky News Australia Locations: Cooma , New South Wales, New,
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