Police divers will return to a popular waterhole in far North Queensland later today, after suspected human remains were found. A member of the public made the discovery at Mossman Gorge near Port Douglas.
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00:00 Police divers will return today to Mossman Gorge to try and find some more bones in the
00:06 area where this human tibia was found last week by a tourist.
00:11 That tourist alerted police to what they'd found and police divers were able to recover
00:16 that bone from the bottom of the Mossman Gorge, the river that runs through Mossman Gorge.
00:22 It was forensic anthropologists who were able to confirm that that bone was a human bone.
00:27 It's not yet known exactly who the remains belong to but police are suspecting that it's
00:33 from the body of a 54-year-old woman who was last seen submerged in water at Mossman Gorge
00:40 on the 6th of January earlier this year.
00:42 A search and rescue at the time failed to find her.
00:45 The gorge was closed for a couple of weeks then but she wasn't able to be found.
00:50 It's hoped that the divers will be able to find more remains today and then there will
00:55 still need to be more forensic work done to determine whether they are indeed the remains
01:00 of that 54-year-old woman who was actually a tourist visiting far north Queensland.
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