Yafang Zhou, 59, had last been seen in downtown San Diego on March 25, police confirmed
- A woman who was missing in California for two weeks died just hours after authorities pulled her out of a storm drain in serious condition, it’s been reported
- Yafang Zhou, 59 — who had last been seen on March 25 — was rescued from the underground storm drain system in Poway, authorities said
- “What she was doing in there, what drove her in there, how she came to be in there — we are unclear,” San Diego Fire-Rescue Battalion Chief Erik Windsor said, per NBC 7 San Diego
A woman who was missing in California for two weeks has died just hours after being rescued from a storm drain, authorities have said.
On Monday, April 7, Yafang Zhou, 59 — who had last been seen on March 25 near her Union Street home in downtown San Diego — died at Palomar Medical Center at about 4:15 p.m. local time. Her death came just hours after she was pulled from an underground storm drain system in Poway, per NBC 7 San Diego , citing the San Diego County medical examiner’s office and San Diego County Public Information Officer Chuck Westerheide.
The missing woman’s death came just under two hours after she was rescued from the manhole in the area of 14710 Beeler Canyon Road, local ABC-affiliated station KGTV noted.
Authorities from the Poway Fire Department, San Diego Fire Department and the San Diego Police Department (SDPD) carried out the rescue mission from around 1 p.m. to 2:35 p.m., the outlet stated…