According to press sources, authorities in western Pennsylvania have discovered the body of a 64-year-old lady who fell into a sinkhole above an abandoned mine.
According to TribLive.com, state police reported that her body was discovered on Friday morning.
The hunt for Elizabeth Pollard, who vanished Monday in Union Township, close to Latrobe, while trying to find a lost cat, had restarted early Friday.
In his house, 75-year-old Kenny Pollard displays a picture from a trip he and his wife, Elizabeth, took to Clearwater Beach, Florida, some ten years ago. (Photo by Matt Freed/AP)
According to WTAE, drills were brought in on Friday, and in order to locate Pollard, crews dug into the mine shaft’s roof from the ground.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said Thursday night that after over ten hours of excavation, they had arrived to the area of the sinkhole where they thought they would discover her remains.
On Wednesday evening, the search for the 64-year-old grandma changed to a recovery mission because it was no longer safe to send workers down the abyss.
Rescue workers were putting their lives in danger by entering the abandoned mine, according to State police Trooper Steve Limani, who likened the instability to a house of cards.
The local Monday’s Union restaurant is no longer open.
According to Limani, there are numerous places with tiny depressions all around. Moreover, those depressions are extremely vulnerable areas.
“There was probably just enough dirt for a roof system and grass to grow in the sinkhole Pollard probably fell through,” he said.
Pollard was last seen looking for Pepper on Monday night. Her 5-year-old granddaughter was recovered in her car two hours after her family reported her missing at one in the morning on Tuesday, unharmed but terrified. The location of Pepper is unclear, and according to the police, no sightings of the cat have been reported in the vicinity.
Authorities believe that as Pollard crossed the ground into a forested area close to the restaurant, a sinkhole with an opening the size of a street manhole cover appeared about 20 feet from her vehicle.
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