Missing Minnesota woman found stuck in mud after 3 days - BERITAJA

A 68-year-old Minnesota female missing for 3 days was recovered live almost wholly submerged successful mud complete the weekend, her rescuers told a section news station.

Kathryn Jane Woessner, of Alexandria, was recovered westbound of Backus, about 80 miles distant from the metropolis wherever she lives, connected Saturday, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office said this week.

Woessner had been reported missing and had past been seen connected June 3, the sheriff’s agency said.

The 2 group who recovered her, Adam Sandbeck and Mike Gravalin, told NBC connection KARE if Minneapolis that they had been riding an off-road conveyance connected trails about Backus and Hackensack connected Saturday erstwhile they recovered Woessner’s van stuck successful the muddy area.

A person introspection showed that location was much than conscionable a conveyance — what they said they thought was a assemblage successful a puddle adjacent to the van.

“And past she whispered, ‘Help me,’ and it frightened the crap retired of me,” Sandbeck told KARE.

All that could beryllium seen was “the information portion of her face, for illustration her mouth, her lips,” he told the station. The 2 men pulled her retired and called 911, they told KARE.

Woessner told Sandbeck that she’d fallen successful the puddle, which she said “was for illustration quicksand,” he told the station.

She was taken to a infirmary aft being rescued, the sheriff’s agency said successful a statement.