Missing teen hiker Lily Hooper found dead after disappearing in NSW national park a week ago
Premier Chris Minns tells parliament ‘this is obviously devastating’ after earlier announcing 18-year-old had been ‘found alive’ with half a bottle of water
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The body of missing 18-year-old bushwalker Lily Hooper has been found in a remote New South Wales national park more than a week after setting out on her hike.
“I’ve got some terrible news,” the NSW premier, Chris Minns, told a parliamentary hearing on Thursday.
Just minutes earlier, Minns had said Lily had been “found alive”.
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