Grim discovery after frantic search was launched for Brisbane couple who failed to board their flight home after holiday in Tasmania
Bodies believed to be those of a missing couple who disappeared while sightseeing in Tasmania have been found three days after a frantic search was launched.
Leannedra Kang and her boyfriend Takahiro Toya, both 25, had been sightseeing in the St Helens and Scamander area on the northeast coast in a rental car.
A search was launched after they failed to board their flight to Brisbane on June 4.
Police located the white Toyota Corolla rental car in water off Tebrakunna Road around 5:30pm on Friday.
Toya and Kang were travelling in a white Toyota Corolla with the registration L67GW, with an image of the car released by Tasmania Police on Friday.
Kang’s sister, Alexandra, took to Facebook after discovering her phone’s last known location was in Goshen, a remote area in northeast Tasmania.
She said that location was ‘out of the way for her itinerary’.
‘Please let me know if anyone has been in contact with her or seen her,’ she wrote.
‘My family is beyond worried.’
Takahiro Toya (left) and Leannedra Kang (right) have been missing since June 4
The couple did not board their flight from their flight back to Brisbane from Tasmania
The car the couple were driving, a white Toyota Corolla with plates L67GW, is pictured
Police also shared a message with the missing couple.
‘Leannedra and Takahiro if you see this, you’re not in any trouble, please phone police or family to let them know you’re ok,’ it said.
More to come.
