Wednesday 10 August 2022 04:25 AM Missing family who got lost in NSW outback survived on puddles before they were ... trends now
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Harrowing details have emerged of how a young mother, grandmother and two children drank from puddles and used their vehicle's mirrors trying to get the attention of rescuers during their 48-hour ordeal lost in the outback.
Darian Aspinall, 27, her two children Winter Bellamy, 2, and Koda Bellamy, 4, and their grandmother Leah Gooding, 50, have been reunited with loved ones after they spent two days lost in far-west NSW.
The family travelled through the region on Sunday on their way through to Adelaide, their final destination.
They had planned to spend the night in the remote township of Packsaddle on Sunday night to meet with the children's father, but his family never arrived.
Ms Aspinall's distraught fiancé Linny Bellamy desperately spent the last two days trying to find them, with police conducting a major land search across the region.
He reported his loved ones as missing, sparking a major search operation spanning much of far-west NSW with the help of authorities from three states.
The family were miraculously found safe and well by a rescue helicopter late Tuesday afternoon, more than 100km from their intended destination.
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