A search is currently underway for an elderly man missing since last Monday from a property in Barraba, north of Tamworth.<\/p>\n
On Monday 9 March 2015, a 70-year-old man advised a friend that he was leaving his property on Cotswald Road, to attend a hospital.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday 11 March, the friend became concerned for the welfare of the man as he had not been seen for two days.<\/p>\n
Police from Oxley Local Area Command were called and they began searching the large rural property.<\/p>\n
Searches of the property have continued over the last several days with the assistance of officers from State Emergency Services, Rural Fire Service, police trail bikes, and Polair.<\/p>\n
There are grave concerns for the man\u2019s welfare.<\/p>\n
He is described as being of Caucasian appearance, 175cm tall, with a thin build, short grey hair, and a moustache. He was last seen wearing long pants and a shirt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A search is currently underway for an elderly man missing since last Monday from a property in Barraba, north of Tamworth. On Monday 9 March 2015, a 70-year-old man advised a friend that he was leaving his property on Cotswald Road, to attend a hospital. On Wednesday 11 March, the friend became concerned for the … Continue reading “Concerns held for missing elderly man – north of Tamworth”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tcrn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}