A whitewater rafting trip has ended in tragedy after a woman drowned when her raft flipped in rapids on the Franklin River.

Eleven people became stranded during the incident near Livingston Rivulet and Coruscades rapid in the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park on Thursday.

Police Search and Rescue officers, helicopters and wilderness paramedics helped extract the group who were on day five of a 10-day rafting trip through Tasmania’s World Heritage Wilderness Area on Friday.

A police spokesman said a 49-year old woman drowned when she became caught in rapids on Thursday afternoon.

“Members of the rafting party performed CPR on the woman at the scene, but she could not be revived,” a spokesman said.

“No other members of the group – which included the woman’s partner – suffered an

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