Police searching for the British backpacker Gareth Huntley, who went missing on a Malaysian island more than a week ago, have found a body close to the turtle conservation project where he was volunteering.
Huntley, 34, from London, has not been seen since he started a trek to a waterfall on Tioman Island off the south-eastern coast of the country's mainland on 27 May and the search had focused on the route through the jungle that he would have taken. But local media reported that the body was found at about 1.30pm (6.30am BST) on Wednesday in a river about 20 metres (66ft) from a kayak storage unit within the compound of the Juara Turtle project. It said the discovery was made behind a row of cabins where members of the search team had been staying over the past three days.
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