04/05/2018

Body Recovered From Belfast Harbour

Rescuers have recovered a body from the water at Belfast Harbour.

Formal identification of the body will not be made until a post-mortem examination is carried out, however it is believed that the body is that of a man who went missing "a number of weeks ago".

Search operations have been ongoing since the man's disappearance involving police, Lagan Search and Rescue, Community Rescue Service (CRS) and the Coastguard.

The body was recovered after workers spotted it in the water on the afternoon of Thursday, 03 May.

(MH/LM)

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