Japanese tourist dies in Uluru park
An AAP report says that it will not be known until an autopsy is conducted if a Japanese tourist, who died after collapsing at a lookout at Australian tourist attraction Olgas, was suffering from heat exhaustion.
The 51-year-old woman was travelling with a tour group at the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park in central Australia and had walked about 300 metres to the lookout at the Valley of the Winds at the Olgas about 5.45pm (CST) yesterday when she collapsed.
A doctor with the group treated the unnamed woman at the scene before she was taken by paramedics to the nearby Yulara Health Clinic, where she was pronounced dead on arrival.
Early media reports stated the woman, who was travelling with a relative and had only been at Yulara for a couple of hours before taking the tour, had suffered from heat exhaustion.
But Northern Territory Police Acting Superintendent Michael Murphy said the cause of her death would not be known until an autopsy was conducted on Wednesday.
The Olgas – also known as Kata Tjuta – and Uluru are central Australia’s most famous rock formations, and both attract many tourists.
Earlier this month, tourists were banned from climbing Uluru after 8am for all of January and February because of the soaring heat and wind.
Supt Murphy said walking bans applied at both tourist destinations.
“The actual Valley of the Winds walk had been closed due to high temperatures, so the group only went to the viewing platform, some 300 metres from the parking area,” he said.
“It appears the woman collapsed after walking a short distance to the lookout.”
In 2002, an 82-year-old Victorian tourist collapsed and died at the Olgas sunset viewing area.
The man had a heart attack while he and other members of his tour group were preparing to watch the sun go down.
A Report by The Mole from AAP
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