VIDEOS/PHOTOS: A San Diego woman who was the subject of a police search for the past two weeks and was found Monday in an underground storm drain system in medical distress has died after being rescued, according to a spokesman for the San Diego County medical examiner’s office. Yafang Zhou, 59, was last seen on March 25 near her Union Street home in downtown San Diego.
On Tuesday, San Diego County Public Information Officer Chuck Westerheide told NBC 7 that Zhou died at Palomar Medical Center at about 4:15 p.m. PT on Monday, just hours after rescuers brought her back to the surface. The search for Zhou led San Diego Police Department detectives on Monday to the 14600 block of Beeler Canyon Road in southern Poway, where they eventually heard a woman’s voice coming from underneath a manhole cover, Lt. Jonathan Dungan said.
