{"id":721950,"date":"2026-04-12T04:10:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T04:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/721950\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T04:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T04:10:17","slug":"police-search-for-hiker-missing-for-24-hours-in-victorias-north-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/721950\/","title":{"rendered":"Police search for hiker missing for 24 hours in Victoria’s north-west"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police are searching for a missing hiker in Victoria’s north-west who failed to return to his group a day after embarking upon a solo hike.<\/p>\n

Andy, 25, had been camping with 14 other people in the Murray-Sunset National Park but separated from them to hike a nearby track towards the South Australian border yesterday at about 11am.<\/p>\n

\"Google<\/p>\n

The Shearers Quarters camping area is located within the Murray-Sunset National Park in Victoria’s north-west. (Source: Google Maps)<\/p>\n

Police said he was due to return to the Shearers Quarters camping area to leave with the group today but failed to return from his hike.<\/p>\n

Authorities are now searching the area for Andy with help from the Air Wing, Dog Squad, Mounted Branch, Search and Rescue Squad officers and the State Emergency Service.<\/p>\n

There are concerns for the 25-year-old man’s welfare due to his inexperience in hiking and the period of time he has been missing.<\/p>\n

\"Cottage<\/p>\n

Andy was last seen leaving Shearers Quarters camping area to complete the 8-kilometre Millewa South Bore Track nearby. (Source: Parks Victoria)<\/p>\n

Andy is described as being of Asian appearance, 173 centimetres tall with a slim build and was last seen wearing a black hooded jumper, grey trackpants, black steel-cap boots and carrying a black backpack.<\/p>\n

Police are urging anyone with information to contact Mildura Police Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are searching for a missing hiker in Victoria’s north-west who failed to return to his group a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":721951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,35201,299454,205782,5425,50,38019,4747,70365],"class_list":["post-721950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-australia","tag-hiker","tag-mallee-district","tag-mildura","tag-missing-person","tag-news","tag-police-search","tag-rescue","tag-ses"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116389781644817292","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721950","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=721950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}