WA: Muster pilot helping in remote WA search for Qld tourist

AAP General News (Australia)
08-16-2001
WA: Muster pilot helping in remote WA search for Qld tourist

A mustering pilot is using his helicopter to help in the search for a Queensland tourist
missing in Western Australia's remote Kimberley region.

Fifty-year-old CLIVE WELLS was with a tourist group near the Manning Gorge, about 300km
east of Derby, when he wandered off a walking trail about 1pm (WST) yesterday.

Police say Mr WELLS, from Eagleby south of Brisbane, was carrying a litre of water
and a box of matches.

The helicopter pilot has joined police and 15 SES volunteers searching for Mr WELLS,
who was wearing only shorts and a T-shirt.

It dropped to 10 degrees in the area overnight.

AAP RTV sd/jas/jn .

KEYWORD: WELLS (PERTH)

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