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| Great Ouse river search: Woman's body found | Great Ouse river search: Woman's body found |
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| Police searching for a mother-of-three, who went missing while playing with her children in a river, have found a body. | |
| The woman, in her 30s, is said to have got into difficulties while diving off small islands in an area of the Great Ouse off Honey Hill Road, Bedford. | |
| Police were called to the river, which has been described as "dangerous and unpredictable", on Thursday evening. | |
| They confirmed a woman's body had been found on Friday morning after searches by specialist dive teams. | |
| Updates on this story and more news from Bedfordshire | Updates on this story and more news from Bedfordshire |
| Neighbour Joe Vacchio said the woman lived around the corner from the river and had been diving into the water with her three children. | |
| He said he heard screams before police and a helicopter arrived. | |
| The river, he said, was "murky" and had holes up to "20ft deep", with the shallow part of the river being around knee or shin height during hotter summer months when families play in it. | |
| He added there were no warnings or signs telling people to be careful or not to swim. | |
| He said: "I have lived here 20 years and I've never been in that river. It's very, very dangerous and very, very unpredictable," he said. | |
| A Bedfordshire Police spokesman said: "It is believed the woman entered the water to help somebody in distress and got into difficulties herself." |