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A teenage girl’s body has been recovered from the water after a car carrying five people crashed into a river, with a teenage boy still missing.
The car left the road and landed in the River Nene near Wisbech at 8.20pm on Tuesday, said police.
Inside were two boys and three girls, all aged between 16 and 18 years old.
Two of the girls and one boy managed to escape and were taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn with injuries that were described by police as not life-threatening.
A search led by specialist diving teams from the Metropolitan Police recovered the car at around 3pm on Wednesday, and the girl’s body was found shortly after.
The efforts to find the boy were continuing, with police saying that underwater searches were being hampered by visibility which at times was as little as 12 inches (30cm).
An evidence tent appeared to have been set up on the riverbank. Credit: ITV News Anglia
Det Ch Insp Gary Webb, head of the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire roads policing unit, said: “We are battling a very challenging environment and we can’t rush it.
“The tidal movement here is significant and if we do rush it, mistakes might happen and vital evidence that could tell us what happened could be washed down the river.
“I’m really keen that we do do this slowly, methodically and more importantly, we listen to our experts and act on their advice accordingly.”
The car had been travelling southbound on North Brink in Wisbech St Mary when it left the road.
At least a dozen emergency services personnel could be seen on the riverbank on Wednesday afternoon, as someone who appeared to be a diver searched in the water.
There was a white forensic tent on the riverbank and emergency service vehicles parked along the road nearby.
Police are appealing for witnesses and those with dashcam footage to contact them, referencing incident 515 of 17 March.
Cambridgeshire Police said the road was likely to remain closed for the remainder of Wednesday.
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