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Body found in Blue Mountains during search for Gary Tweddle | Body found in Blue Mountains during search for Gary Tweddle |
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Police searching for a British man who went missing in the Blue Mountains region of Australia in July say a body has been discovered. | Police searching for a British man who went missing in the Blue Mountains region of Australia in July say a body has been discovered. |
Gary Tweddle, 23, who is originally from Reading, was attending a conference in Leura, west of Sydney, on 17 July and went for a walk. | |
He disappeared after making a phone call to say he was lost in bushland. | |
Police said they could not recover the body until dawn for identification due to the "rough terrain". | Police said they could not recover the body until dawn for identification due to the "rough terrain". |
The body was found by an ambulance rescue helicopter during a training exercise near Leura. | |
Cliffs and gullies | |
Joanne Elliott, a spokeswoman for Blue Mountains Local Area Command, said: "The location couldn't be accessed on foot and the crew lost all light in the mountains so we're unable to get down to the ground. | |
"They will return first thing in the morning with Blue Mountains police." | |
An extensive search and rescue operation was carried out by New South Wales Police and volunteers following Mr Tweddle's disappearance. | |
More than 1,000 people searched cliffs and gullies with helicopters, by abseiling and using bushwalkers. | |
The 23-year-old was living and working in Sydney as a computer salesman at the time of his disappearance. |
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