A 10-year-old girl who came to the U.S. from Afghanistan just two years ago has been rescued after surviving 24 hours alone in a remote mountain area in Washington state, authorities say.
Shunghla Mashwani was reported missing in the Cle Elum River Valley, east of Seattle, shortly before 2 p.m. local time on Sunday, the Kittitas County Sheriff's office said in aHer loved ones said her extended family had been gathering at the Cathedral Pass Trailhead on Fish Lake Road and playing in the woods near a footbridge over the Cle Elum River, the sheriff's office said.
Sheriff's deputies were dispatched to the scene and"launched a search immediately," coordinating with Kittitas County Search & Rescue volunteers, the sheriff's office said. It was not until 3 p.m. Monday, over 24 hours after the child went missing, that two ground volunteers found Shunghla alive - and with only minor scrapes, the sheriff's office said.
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