{"id":118168,"date":"2025-08-04T12:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T12:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/118168\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T12:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T12:24:11","slug":"missing-man-gach-top-found-alive-and-well-in-small-town-125km-west-of-alice-springs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/118168\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing man Gach Top found alive and well in small town 125km west of Alice Springs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A 26-year-old man who has been missing in the outback for a week has been found in a small town 125 kilometres west of Alice Springs, according to his father.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Mr Top&#8217;s father said his family had been told by members of the community there had been a sighting of his son in Hermannsburg.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Mr Top&#8217;s mother and sister travelled to the small town where they later found him alive and well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">In a statement, NT police said upon being found Mr Top was taken to hospital for assessment and thanked &#8220;members of the public for their assistance&#8221; in helping find him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The ABC understands the 26-year-old is now making his<strong> <\/strong>way back to Alice Springs with his mother and sister.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A man wearing a long-sleeve jumper, standing in an outback landscape.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/d18bd870c43a0299c3ec859b5889a009\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">David Kong is the father of 26-year-old Gach Top who has been found alive and well. (ABC News: Christopher Fitzpatrick)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Gach Top disappeared west of Alice Springs last Monday, with police and emergency services searching 500 square kilometres after his vehicle was discovered about 14.5 kilometres from town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Authorities had suspended their search on Saturday night, handing the matter over to NT Police Southern Crime Division for further investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">However, the family and local community members spent the following Monday public holiday continuing to look for him in an area where police had previously found Mr Top&#8217;s belongings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">His father David Kong confirmed on Monday evening that he had just heard from his wife and daughter that his son had been found in Hermannsburg and was well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 26-year-old man who has been missing in the outback for a week has been found in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":118169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[73885,4740,73889,22680,73887,73888,73891,73892,73884,73890,73886,11116,50,13263,73893,73894,73895],"class_list":{"0":"post-118168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-26yo-found","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-community-finds-missing-man","11":"tag-found","12":"tag-gach-top","13":"tag-gach-top-found","14":"tag-gach-top-found-in-hermannsburg","15":"tag-hermannsburg","16":"tag-man-found","17":"tag-man-found-in-hermannsburg","18":"tag-missing-26yo","19":"tag-missing-man","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-nt","22":"tag-south-sudanese","23":"tag-sudanese-community","24":"tag-volunteer-search"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114970483984892060","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}