Police have confirmed the welfare of another West Australian previously unaccounted for, after investigations uncovered more triple-0 calls that failed to connect during an Optus outage that has sparked national outrage.

It was revealed on Monday afternoon that the outage lasted longer than initially reported by the telecommunications giant, with calls also between 12.17am and 12.30am on Thursday also affected.

An additional seven calls went unanswered, including four from WA . Two calls were cleared by Optus, and two were referred to WA Police. Both individuals have now been accounted for, police confirmed on Tuesday.

“The second call referred to WA Police from Optus on Monday has been resolved,” a Police spokesperson said.

Police Commissioner Col Blanch said the community “sho

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