Kathmandu: Early autopsy results suggest skeletal remains discovered on a Nepalese mountainside belong to the missing West Australian man Matt Allpress.
Friends and family raised the alarm in November after the 23-year-old failed to arrive in Sydney following a solo 10-day trek in the country’s Annapurna ranges.
The remains were found on 10 May and his parents, Margaret and Mark Allpress, travelled to Pokhara police station in Nepal where they confirmed that clothing and personal items found nearby belonged to their son.
First US drone lands in Japan
Tokyo: A US Global Hawk surveillance drone arrived yesterday morning at the Misawa Air Base in northeastern Japan in the first deployment of such an aircraft in the country, Kyodo reported.
It is one of a pair of Guam-based Global Hawks to be deployed at Misawa in Aomori Prefecture from around May to October. The two reconnaissance aircraft will likely start operating in the Asia-Pacific region in early June.
The temporary deployment in Japan of the unmanned aircraft is believed to be aimed at avoiding typhoons that frequently hit Guam during summer.
It is also believed to be aimed at monitoring North Korea and China at a time when Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile development programmes as well as Beijing’s maritime assertiveness have raised security concerns in Japan.
Agencies
