Alaska
Missing teenage snowmachiner found dead in northwest Alaska
A young person lacking in northwest Alaska for almost 10 days was discovered lifeless Wednesday, Alaska State Troopers mentioned.
The physique of Thomas Aki Pungalik Brown, 18, of Ambler was found close to Cape Blossom, about 10 miles south of Kotzebue, Alaska State Troopers mentioned.
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A lacking teenage snowmachiner was discovered lifeless in northwest Alaska on Wednesday. He suffered from extreme frostbite.
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The seek for Brown and his cousin, Josiah Poll of Selawik, additionally 18, started Jan. 16 when the 2 didn’t arrive on a snowmachine in Noorvik that day as deliberate, Poll’s mom, Tanya Poll, advised the Anchorage Each day Information. They’d left Kotzebue the day prior to this for the journey of simply over 40 miles east to Noorvik.
Poll was found Friday, about 28 miles south of Kotzebue, roughly 8 miles from his snowmachine. He suffered from extreme frostbite and was taken to an Anchorage hospital. Troopers mentioned the snowmachine was recovered from the ocean ice.