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Search for flood girl scaled down | |
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The search has been scaled down for a 17-year-old girl still missing after a car was swept into a swollen stream in Cornwall, police said. | |
The accident at Zennor happened in the early hours of Saturday when four people - including the girl and her brother - were in an off-duty taxi. | |
A major operation began when a 20-year-old man escaped and raised the alarm. | |
A man's body was later found downstream and a second man's body was found on Sunday afternoon at Porthglaze cove. | |
'Outgoing person' | |
Police have not confirmed whether the second body found under silt is 26-year-old Ryan Martel, a third year broadcast journalism student at University College Falmouth. | |
His sister Frankie Chappel has still not been found. | |
Both live locally, but are originally from Guernsey. | |
Stephanie Alvarez-Masterton, a childhood friend of Miss Chappel's from the Channel Island, said: "All Frankie ever did was care about other people, she would always make sure everyone else was okay. | |
"The whole family were just genuinely nice, lovely people." | |
She said Miss Chappel was an "outgoing" person who liked horse riding. | |
The Volvo S70 Miss Chappel and the others were travelling in was swept away when part of a track near the B3306 collapsed at about 0130 BST on Saturday. | |
The car was found submerged in floodwater shortly after. | |
The 20-year-old man whose body was found later that day has also not yet been identified. |