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Body found in search for girl missing in River Thames

A boy has been rescued and is in a stable condition at a local hospital, Kent Police said.

A major search operation has been launched for the missing child
Image: A body has been found by police searching for a missing girl in the River Thames
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Police searching for a missing girl in the River Thames have found a body.

Emergency services responded on Friday to a report of two children, a boy and a girl, in difficulty in the water near the Royal Terrace Pier in Gravesend, Kent, having entered the river at nearby Royal Pier Road.

A boy has since been rescued and is in a stable condition at a local hospital.

The children got in difficulty in the water near the Royal Terrace Pier, Gravesend
Image: The children got into difficulty in the water near the Royal Terrace Pier, Gravesend

Kent Police said the body was recovered at around 11.40am with the assistance of the RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) in a statement on Saturday afternoon.

Formal identification by the missing girl's next of kin has taken place, and the death is not being treated as suspicious, police added.

Coastguard officers searching for the missing child
Image: Coastguard officers searching for the missing child

The boy's condition was "not described to be life-threatening", police said.