Woman Missing In Yosemite After Fall in River

A San Diego resident is last seen plunging into the Merced River

Searchers are trying to find a woman with San Diego ties who was last seen after she fell in a river in Yosemite National Park.

The park service reported Katrin Lehman, 31, missing on Tuesday. The native of Germany fell into the Merced River in Yosemite National Park below the Vernal Fall footbridge Monday at about 3:30 p.m., the paper reported.

Lehman was fully dressed when she went in the river.

Until April 30, Lehman was a post-doctoral researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, where she worked with a climate scientist. 

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