New details emerge in woman's death after Poway storm drain rescue

New details emerge in woman's death after Poway storm drain rescue

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) -- The San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office released new information on the woman who died after being rescued from a storm drain in Poway earlier this week. On the morning of March 25, Yafang Zhou, a 59-year-old San Diego resident, drove her personal vehicle away from her home without returning, according to medical officials. Then on April 2, officers found Zhou's vehicle parked near the Beeler Canyon trailhead in …

Woman’s vehicle discovered in Poway five days before she was pulled from storm drain

Five days before a missing San Diego woman was found dying in a Poway storm drain, police had spotted her vehicle at a nearby trailhead. Information released Thursday by the Medical Examiner’s Office sheds more light on why San Diego police were searching for 59-year-old Yafang Zhou in the remote area. Zhou was discovered by rescuers inside an underground pipe system near Beeler Canyon trailhead, south of Scripps Poway Parkway, on Monday. She wa…

In Poway, near San Diego, a 59-year-old woman who had been missing for more than two weeks was discovered in critical condition in a rainwater collector. She died shortly afterwards.

She believed her ordeal was over, but she was not at the end of her sentence. As reported by NBC San Diego, Yafang Zhou, this 59-year-old woman was last seen near her home on 25 March, in downtown San Diego. Since then, she has been the subject of extensive research. Finally, the competent authorities in her city managed to find her two weeks later. The poor woman was literally under the rubble, more than three metres underground. She had fallen…