\n A concerned member of the public found her in the River Waveney, underneath a bridge in Beccles, at about 8am this morning.\n<\/p>\n
\n Police, fire and ambulance crews attended the scene and recovered the woman’s body from the water.\n<\/p>\n
\n Police taped off part of the riverside at Beccles (Image: Dan Grimmer)\n<\/p>\n
\n It is believed she was aged 60 to 70 but police at this moment do not know who she is and have made a plea to the public to identify her.\n<\/p>\n
\n The death is currently being treated as unexplained, but there is currently no evidence to suggest it is suspicious. The coroner has been informed.\n<\/p>\n
\n Officers are urging anyone who might have vital information about her final movements to come forward.\n<\/p>\n
\n The River Waveney, where the body was recovered (Image: Dan Grimmer)\n<\/p>\n
\n The woman is understood to have been in the vicinity of The Quay before 8am this morning.\n<\/p>\n
\n She is described as white, petite and had short curly brown hair. She was wearing a cream cardigan, a blue top, white jeans, and white boots at the time.\n<\/p>\n
\n Detectives also believe the woman might have been carrying a pink coat, as well as a torch and umbrella.\n<\/p>\n
\n Police sealed off a section of the footpath running along the bank next to the River Waveney with blue and white tape.\n<\/p>\n
\n Police officers were positioned close to the bridge and further along the bank, past Beccles Marshes, with police officers positioned nearby.\n<\/p>\n
\n Three police cars and the specialist forensics van were parked in lay-bys next to the A146, which runs over the bridge.\n<\/p>\n
\n A police forensics van was parked in an A146 lay-by (Image: Dan Grimmer)\n<\/p>\n
\n One man, who had travelled to Beccles Quay to go fishing, said: “They brought a body out of the river this morning.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We got here at about 7.30am, and there was everything here – police, fire engines and ambulances.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Then, later on, they put the police tape up, and they’re not letting anyone through.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Police cars at the scene of the tragedy in Beccles (Image: Dan Grimmer)\n<\/p>\n
\n A boatowner said the woman’s body had been recovered from the water right next to their vessel and that her thoughts were with the woman’s family.\n<\/p>\n
\n Anyone with any information is urged to contact East CID at Lowestoft Police Station by calling 101, quoting CAD 135 of January 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A concerned member of the public found her in the River Waveney, underneath a bridge in Beccles, at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-347233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}