Initial report from ‘thick and dense terrain’ where Lily was located was she’d been found alive but within 10 minutes a ‘more accurate account’ was relayed to police

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The body of missing 18-year-old bushwalker Lily Hooper has been found in a remote New South Wales national park more than a week after she set out on her hike.

NSW police said in a statement on Thursday: “The body of a woman has been located in bushland following the search for a missing bushwalker in the southern highlands.”