Tasmanian woman drowns on day 5 of multi-day Franklin River rafting trip

A Tasmanian woman has drowned after the raft she was travelling in flipped on the fifth day of a planned 10-day rafting adventure in the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park.

The 49-year-old struck trouble near the Livingston Rivulet and the Coruscades rapid on Thursday, deep in Tasmania’s…