Body found in search for girl missing in River Thames

A boy who was rescued is in a stable condition in hospital.

Kent Police were called by the Port of London Authority at 1.46pm on Friday (Jordan Pettitt/PA) (PA Wire)

A body has been found in the search for a girl missing in the River Thames, police said.

A body was recovered from the river near Gravesend with the assistance of the RNLI at around 11.40am on Saturday.

Formal identification by the girl’s next of kin has taken place, and the death is not being treated as suspicious, Kent Police said in a statement.

A boy who was rescued is in a stable condition in hospital.

A search was launched after two children got into trouble in the water near the Royal Terrace Pier on Friday afternoon.

Police were called by the Port of London Authority at 1.46pm to “concerns for the welfare of two children who had entered the river”, a force spokesman said.

Emergency services were called and a search was launched, leading to a boy being pulled out of the river.

He was taken to a local hospital where his condition was “not described to be life-threatening”, police said.