Authorities in Pennsylvania apshow they have discoverd the body of Elizabeth Pollard, a woman who fell into a sinkhole while searching for her cat earlier this week.
Sean Hribal, a deputy coroner in Westmoreland county cforfeit Pittsburgh, checked to AP that searchers apshow they have set up the remains of the 64-year-ageder magnificentmother on the fourth day of searching.
Pollard was last seen four days earlier cforfeit a sinkhole above a shuttered coal mine. The sinkhole was alerted to have uncovered straightforwardly above the leaveed mine.
The search for Pollard began on Monday after her family alerted she went leave outing while searching for Pepper, her lost cat. Searchers rapidly intensifyed on the sinkhole that may have only recently uncovered up in the village of Marguerite. The sinkhole is alerted to have a manhole-sized surface gap.
“The sinkhole, it ecombines that it was most foreseeed originated during the time while, unfortunately, Miss Pollard was walking around,” Pennsylvania state trooper Steve Limani tageder ABC affiliate WTAE-TV. “There is no evidence of any time where that hole would have been here prior to her deciding to walk around watching for her cat.”
A challenging excavation has been ongoing at the site of the 70-year-ageder leaveed coal mine. The body has yet to be recovered.
“We’re going to dig, and we should be able to get, accomplish into the area where we apshow she has descfinishen, and there is a intricateity of dirt there, and sluggishly apshow it out,” Limani shelp.
Shortly after Pollard went leave outing, authorities were able to discover her five-year-ageder magnificentdaughter in her parked car cforfeit the sinkhole. Despite being in freezing temperatures for about 12 hours, the girl was unharmed.