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Body found in search for missing teenage girl who fell into reservoir
A body has been found in the search for a missing teenage girl who fell into a reservoir, police have said.
West Yorkshire Police confirmed they recovered a body from the Baitings Reservoir, near Ripponden, on Thursday afternoon. A formal identification is yet to take place, but police believe the body to be that of the missing teenage girl.
The girl's family have been informed. Emergency services were called to the reservoir at 1.17pm on Wednesday following reports that a teenage girl had fallen into the water from Baitings Dam.
Police, fire and ambulance crews, as well as an underwater search team, were deployed to the scene for the search, which continued on Thursday until a body was found. Read more from Sky News:Age range of Liverpool crash victims releasedDrought declared in North West England Detective Inspector Laura Hall of Calderdale's Safeguarding Team said: "While formal identification is yet to take place, the girl's family have been informed and are being supported by specially-trained officers.
"My thoughts go out to her family and friends at this very sad time. "Our enquiries are continuing into the death in order to establish exactly what happened yesterday, but we do not believe it to be suspicious.".
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