{"id":2325,"date":"2025-04-13T16:10:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T16:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2025-04-15T23:08:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T23:08:18","slug":"body-found-in-search-for-11-year-old-who-disappeared-in-river-thames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/13\/body-found-in-search-for-11-year-old-who-disappeared-in-river-thames\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found in search for 11-year-old who disappeared in River Thames"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kaliyah Coa and the Bargehouse Causeway, where she fell into the river at the end of March (Picture: PA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The family of an 11-year-old girl who disappeared after falling in the Thames has been informed after a body was discovered this morning.<\/p>\n

Kaliyah Coa, from Beckton in east London<\/a>, lost her footing while playing with friends on a causeway near City Airport on March 31.<\/p>\n

A major search operation was launched, with the London Ambulance Service (LAS), London Fire Brigade (LFB) and the RNLI combing the river, but Kaliyah was not found.<\/p>\n

Officers from the Metropolitan Police<\/a> were alerted after a body was found shortly after 9am today.<\/p>\n

While the body has not been formally identified, Kaliyah\u2019s family were told.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the Met said: \u2018The Met was alerted to a body in the River Thames in Maritime Quay, E14 on Sunday April 13 at 09:03am.<\/p>\n

\u2018The body is yet to be formally identified. However, the family of Kaliyah Coa have been informed of this development and are being supported by specialist officers.<\/p>\n

\u2018An update will be provided following formal identification.\u2019<\/p>\n

Tributes to Kaliyah were left at Bargehouse Causeway in North Woolwich, where she was last seen at the end of last month.<\/p>\n

A family friend who was visiting the spot previously told Metro<\/strong>: \u2018I know the dad, he is going to be in a very bad place.<\/p>\n

\u2018He lost another child when they were a baby. It is devastating.\u2019<\/p>\n

She added: \u2018As a child I came here to the water, and it is very dangerous.\u2019<\/p>\n

Got a story? Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk<\/a>.<\/strong> Or you can submit your videos and pictures here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Kaliyah Coa and the Bargehouse Causeway, where she fell into the river at the end of March (Picture: PA) The family of an 11-year-old girl who disappeared after falling in the Thames has been informed after a body was discovered this morning. Kaliyah Coa, from Beckton in east London, lost her footing while playing with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2328,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions\/2328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}