Girl survives freezing night in WA outback

Sydney (AAP) - 11 Sept - A four-year-old girl spent a freezing night huddled with a family friend in the West Australian outback, after the child wandered off from a campsite.
Wearing a pink jumper, Catarina Stronich went missing just before midday (WST) on Saturday, soon after she and her family set up camp at Eagle Rock, near Mukinbudin in WA's rocky Wheatbelt region.
Family friend Anna Kelly, who was also on the trip, later found Catarina several kilometres away from the campsite after she set off alone to look for the girl.
However, before Ms Kelly could find their way back to the camp, it began to get dark and the pair were forced to spend the night huddled together in freezing conditions.
"(There were) several choppers and planes going over and nobody spotted us and then it got dark and I just thought, `S***, this is it'," Ms Kelly told Network Ten.
WA Police and State Emergency Service teams stepped up their search for the girl early on Sunday morning, bringing in the police plane and chartering a helicopter.
Police divers, mounted police and a sniffer dog were also used in the search.
At about 9.30am, the girl and the woman were located and taken to Mukinbudin for a medical check-up.
A tearful Claudia Stronich hugged her daughter as the two were reunited and was assured by Ms Kelly "she is absolutely fine".