The water section was requested to assist an ongoing high profile search for a missing boy believed to have the water and had since not been seen. The team were stood down en route at the direction of the Police. It was later confirmed that the body of a boy had been located in the water. 


Our thoughts are with the boy's family and friends and this difficult time

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