Victoria Police Search for Missing Man in North Warrandyte

Police will prepare a report for the coroner following the discovery of the body of a man in the Yarra River, North Warrandyte this afternoon.

Emergency services were called to Osbourne Road about 7.20am after reports a man, who entered the Yarra River with three friends, had been swept along by fast-moving rapids.

His three friends raised the alarm when they noticed the man, in his 20s, had separated from the group.

Local Police along with Air Wing, Search and Rescue Squad and State Emergency Service searched the surrounding area.

The man's body was located in the water just before 1.30pm.

The deceased is yet to be formally identified but is believed to be a 23-year-old Wantirna South man that went missing this morning.

The death is not being treated as suspicious.

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