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Umar Khan: Body found in search for missing 24-year-old in Scotland

Family of Umar Khan have been informed, police say

Lucinda Cameron
Friday 02 September 2022 04:43 EDT
A search for Umar Khan was launched on Tuesday
A search for Umar Khan was launched on Tuesday (PA)

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A body has been found in the search for a missing 24-year-old man in Scotland.

Police said a man’s body was found in the water in the Gregness area of Cove, Aberdeen, at around 12.30pm on Thursday.

Formal identification has still to take place but the family of Umar Khan, 24, have been informed.

A spokesman for Police Scotland: “The death is not being treated as suspicious and a report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal.”

A search for Mr Khan was launched on Tuesday.

Mr Khan, who has links to both Leicester and London, travelled to Glasgow and on to Aberdeenshire.

He is believed to have taken a Flixbus service from Glasgow to Aberdeen, arriving at around 2.50pm on Tuesday 23 August.

Police had appealed for anyone who saw him on the bus or in the Aberdeen area to contact them.

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