Vic: Search resumes for missing hunter - Correction
Searchers were due out at dawn this morning to look for a deer hunter missing in ruggedalpine country in north-east Victoria.
The 69-year-old man's son raised the alarm by activating an emergency beacon last nightafter his father failed to return from a hunting trip in the Beloka State forest, nearBenambra.
The man is believed to be well equipped and experienced.
PA helicopter and the State Emergency Service are due to join police in the search today.
(EDS: Correcting - on updated information - that the son activated the EPIRB, not thefather as sent.)
AAP RTV svm/jmd/ge
KEYWORD: HUNTER (MELBOURNE)
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