Bodies believed to be those of a missing couple who disappeared while sightseeing in Tasmania have been found three days after a frantic search was launched.
Leannedra Kang and her boyfriend Takahiro Toya, both 25, had been sightseeing in the St Helens and Scamander area on the northeast coast in a rental car.
A search was launched after they failed to board their flight to Brisbane on June 4.
Police located the white Toyota Corolla rental car in water off Tebrakunna Road around 5:30pm on Friday.
Toya and Kang were travelling in a white Toyota Corolla with the registration L67GW, with an image of the car released by Tasmania Police on Friday.
‘Police can confirm two bodies, believed to be that of missing tourists Leannedra Kang and Takahiro Toya, have been located,’ the police said in a statement.
The deceased pair were found a short time later near the crashed vehicle.
‘At this early stage it appears they were travelling over a bridge when the vehicle has left the roadway and ended up in the water.’
Takahiro Toya (left) and Leannedra Kang (right) have been missing since June 4
The couple did not board their flight from their flight back to Brisbane from Tasmania
The car the couple were driving, a white Toyota Corolla with plates L67GW, is pictured
During the search, Kang’s sister, Cassandra, took to Facebook after discovering her phone’s last known location was in Goshen, a remote area in northeast Tasmania.
She said that location was ‘out of the way for her itinerary’.
‘Please let me know if anyone has been in contact with her or seen her,’ she wrote.
‘My family is beyond worried.’
In Tasmania Police’s statement on Friday, they said the loss of the pair was a ‘tragic outcome’ and the force’s ‘thoughts are with their families and loved ones’.
‘Our initial investigations suggest there are no suspicious circumstances, but further forensic examinations will now take place’, they said.
A report will be prepared for the coroner.
