災害 · ギップスランドの奥地捜索
上空から発見:短パン姿の10代の少年がギップスランドの奥地で6日間を生き延びた経緯
原語の動画
英語の原文から翻訳されています。
17歳の少年が、短パンと作業用ブーツ姿で、携帯電話も食料も水もないままギップスランドの奥地に入り、6日後に生きて戻った。どうやって?木曜日、その答えの一部は上空からもたらされた。残りはウィリアムのもので、彼はまだ公に語っていない。
ビクトリア州警察のエアウィング(航空部隊)の乗組員が、11月12日木曜日の午前、釣り道具の箱を発見したことで彼を見つけた。その場所はワルハラ・イースト近くのストーニー・クリークの東約2キロの地点だった。ウィリアムは近くの乾いた川床の岩の上で眠っていた。上半身は裸で日焼けしており、そばには枕、弁当箱、小さなテーブルがあった。ヘリコプターが上空を旋回すると、彼は目を覚まし、笑顔で手を振り、こぶしを突き上げた。その後、警察官がウインチで降下し、彼を救出した。1
今回の捜索地域は、正直に言って徒歩では無理だった。あまりに急斜面で、どんな人間にも不可能な場所だった。
行方不明になった経緯
ワルハラ・イースト付近での6日間
6日間の様子
奥地での彼の時間について現時点で分かっていることはすべて、警察と母親から伝えられたもので、記者を通じて報じられている。警察によると、彼は極めて険しく岩の多い地形を何日も歩き続けていた。救助の2日前、彼は急な川床の斜面を転落し、その後はその場にとどまり、眠りながら発見されるのを待っていた。1
ベンボーは印象的な細部を一つ付け加えた。ウィリアムは「警察が自分を捜しているとは思ってもいなかった」という。それでも彼は、発見される決め手となった行動をとっていた。転落後は動きを止め、ヘリコプターの乗組員が上空から見える場所にある道具のそばにとどまったのだ。1
捜索と発見
ヘリコプターが到着したとき、バークレーはたまたまコワーの集合場所にいた。彼女は両腕を広げてヘリコプターへ駆け寄り、息子に「あんたのせいで本当に寿命が縮んだわ」と告げた。SESの事案管理者トヒ・クルは、確認の連絡が入る数分前まで警察やバークレーと一緒に立っていた。「空気がさっと変わって、誰も何も言わなくなった…何かが起きると分かった」と彼は語り、この再会を「感動的な瞬間」と呼んだ。コワー・レクリエーション保護区で、バークレーは記者団に「もう二度と一人で家を出ることは許さない。一生外出禁止よ」と語った。1
彼はモニタリングのためラトローブ地域病院に搬送された。病院の最高経営責任者ドン・マクレーは、彼が「これほど元気なのは驚くべきこと」だとし、「明らかに健康な若者だ」と述べた。木曜日の遅くに母親は、息子が話好きで、機嫌がよく、空腹だと語り、彼が頼んでいたマクドナルドの注文を持っていった。すべて順調なら、早ければ金曜日の11月13日に退院する可能性がある。ベンボーは「私の考えでは、彼はもっと長く持ちこたえられたかもしれません。とても体力があり健康でした」と述べた。1
報道が食い違う点
分かっていること
不明な点
- ウィリアム本人が語る6日間の経緯。警察と母親が一部を伝えてはいるが、彼が公に話したことはない。
- 水曜日に警察が呼びかけたトレイルカメラの映像に、彼が映っていたかどうか。
今後の展開
- 病院が可能だとしている、11月13日金曜日の退院が実現するかどうか。
- 警察が、彼が生き延びた経緯の全容を聞いたときに何を知るのか。
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Coast Heraldcoastherald.com1
Court Services Victoriavic.gov.au1
Google News Australia (AU:en)bbc.com1
Google News Deutschland (DE:de)tagesspiegel.de1
Google News last hour 3river1467.com.au1
Mirage Newsmiragenews.com1
放送時の内容
- Lost six days in the bush, a teenager woke to a helicopter and pumped his fist.
- William is 17. He disappeared from his first solo camping trip in eastern Victoria wearing only shorts and work boots, and more than a hundred people spent six days looking for him. Police found him alive in country too steep to search on foot.
- How he got through those six days is something police are still waiting to hear from William himself.
- On Thursday morning, a Victoria Police Air Wing crew spotted his fishing tackle box from the air, about two kilometres east of Stoney Creek, near Walhalla East in Gippsland. William was close by, asleep on a rock in a dry riverbed. He was shirtless and sunburned, with a pillow, a lunch box and a small table beside him.
- The helicopter circled, and he woke up. He smiled, waved and pumped his fist, and police said he gave a thumbs up. Officers were then winched down to bring him out.
- Acting Inspector Jason Benbow said the ground was way too steep to cover on foot, beyond the capabilities of any human. Authorities said William couldn't have been found without the helicopter. The crew was reportedly flying over ground nobody had searched yet.
- The crew flew him to the police staging ground at Cowwarr, where his mother, Elizabeth Barkley, was waiting. She ran to the helicopter with her arms open. From there he went to Latrobe Regional Hospital in Traralgon for monitoring.
- William still has to tell his own story of those six days. Subscribe to this channel and we'll keep following it, here and at heyday dot news.
- William went missing without his phone, his food or his water. His mother had dropped him off that Friday for a weekend of camping with a friend. It was his first trip on his own, and he'd had little bush experience. William lives with autism. He's believed to have walked a short way back to the drop-off point to fetch more gear, and he didn't come back. His friend searched the area and found no trace of him.
- Police say he was last seen around four that Friday afternoon, near Stoney Creek Road between Cowwarr and Walhalla. Two days before the rescue, police say, he fell down a steep riverbed embankment. On Wednesday they widened the search, and on Thursday morning the helicopter crew found him.
- Police said he spent days walking through extremely rugged, rocky terrain. His mother said he missed a turn-off back to camp and curled up under some bushes to sleep. The next day, she said, he started walking again to find the campsite, and he just missed his footing and down he went. After the fall he stayed put, sleeping and waiting. He used two towels as blankets against the cold nights. He rationed a family-sized bag of chicken chips, and it lasted about two days. Benbow said William had no idea police were even looking for him.
- More than 100 people searched for him on land and in the air, with more than 80 volunteers in the bush every day. Police divers, the dog squad, the rescue squad and the SES all joined in, with boats, horses, motorbikes and several helicopter crews.
- Nights in the region got near freezing. On Wednesday, after a hunting camera turned up in the search area, police asked hunters, campers and landowners around Cowwarr to urgently check their deer, trail and game cameras for anything recorded since the sixth of November. Nobody has said whether that footage showed William.
- Police put the rescue on Thursday morning. A Friday and a Wednesday were also mentioned early on, and neither fits a six-day search. Walhalla East sits about 180 to 185 kilometres east of Melbourne.
- When the crew reached him, police said, William was exhausted and couldn't walk.
- Police said he had cuts on his legs and severe sunburn to his upper body and face, but was in good spirits and mostly in good health. His mother said he had only a few scratches and some sunburn, and seemed fit and healthy. Late Thursday she said he was talkative, happy and hungry.
- Benbow said that other than that, William was talking, smiling, hugging his mother, and having a doughnut and water. His mother later brought him the McDonald's order he asked for. A quarter pounder, six nuggets, a cheeseburger and large fries. Don McRae, who runs Latrobe Regional Hospital, said it was extraordinary to see him so well. He said William is obviously a fit young man, and that held him in good stead.
- Minutes before the news came through, SES incident controller Tohi Kuru was standing with police and Barkley. He said an air came over them, nobody spoke, and they knew something was coming. He called it awe-inspiring to watch that mother reunite with William.
- Barkley said that when William told her, I love you Mum, it just melted her heart. She said she never stopped believing he was alive. Then she told reporters he's never leaving the house again, and he's grounded for life.
- She said he dreams of being a famous AFL footballer. Famous that way, she said, not famous like this. He'll only go camping again in a cabin, and with her. She thanked the volunteers. Benbow said there were a few emotional police in there. He called it the best thing about the job, and said it doesn't happen all the time.
- Police still want to hear from William exactly how he survived six days without supplies or proper clothing. Benbow thinks he could have lasted longer. He said William was very fit and healthy, and that it's amazing he survived this long, through cold nights and hot days. If all goes well, the hospital says he could be discharged as early as Friday.
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