Body found in search for girl missing in River Thames

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.

Kent Police said the body was recovered at around 11.40am with the assistance of the RNFL (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.

The boy’s condition was “not described to be life-threatening”, police said.