Owen Townsend, 25, found in Golden Beach after going missing while trying to reach his grandmother’s house
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A 25-year-old Victorian man survived five nights without food or water as police and volunteers searched swampland for him in the state’s south-east.
Owen Townsend was found on Wednesday morning at about 9.30am in Golden Beach, a coastal town in Gippsland, after he was spotted by a passerby.
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