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image captionPolice carried out an intensive search after the boy was reported to have fallen off Tower Bridge
A body has been discovered in the search for a 13-year-old schoolboy who fell in the River Thames more than a week ago.
The Year 8 pupil was in his school uniform on his way to Ark Globe Academy in Southwark when he fell from Tower Bridge on 20 April.
The City of London Police force, which has been leading the search, confirmed that a body was found on Wednesday.
It was found near the Rotherhithe Tunnel, the City of London Police said.
Boy, 13, found dead after falling into River Thames on his way to school
The boy is believed to have been on his way to the Ark Globe Academy
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A RNLI search boat was out on the River Thames on Wednesday (April 28) (Image: David Nathan)
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Folajimi Olubunmi-Adewole, 20, drowned in the River Thames after diving in to rescue a woman
The family of a hero who died after jumping into the River Thames to rescue a woman who fell from London Bridge said the search for him ended too soon.
Folajimi Olubunmi-Adewole, who was known as Jimi, saw the woman fall from the bridge when he was on his way home from work at around midnight on Saturday.
After he dived in, the woman and another man who also jumped in the water to were rescued by the Coastguard and the Metropolitan Police s river unit, but Jimi was not found after a search which called off after more than an hour.
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