Aspiring doctor plunges 20 metres from popular waterfall to her death

A young woman who plunged 20 metres to her death while taking photos of a waterfall has been identified as a medicine graduate.

Ujvala Vemuru, aged in her 20s, was hiking with friends in Lamington National Park in the Hinterland on Saturday afternoon when the group stopped at Yanbacoochie Falls.

It's understood she had been retrieving her camera tripod, which dropped over a ledge, when she slipped 10m down a slope and fell a further ten metres into the waterhole.

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