A missing 68-year-old Minnesota woman was found alive after spending three days trapped in mud beside her van in a remote wooded area.

A missing woman was found in a Minnesota puddle of mud where she told her rescuers she had been stuck for days.

Adam Sandbeck and Mike Gravalin told a television station that they found the 68-year-old woman almost totally submerged, with her mouth and part of her face exposed.