COPS are searching for a missing man and woman after a teenage girl was found alone on a boat.
A stretch of river on the Norfolk Broads has been closed amid fears the couple, who were on a boating holiday, might have fallen in the water and drowned.
The search was launched last night after their hired cruiser was found tied to a tree with their 13-year-old daughter alone on board.
A one-mile section of the River Bure around Hoveton, near Norwich, has been shut to the public, to allow the water and riverbanks to be searched.
The closure which was made in consultation with the Broads Authority covers a stretch of water between Salhouse Broad and Wroxham Broad.
The alarm was first raised at just after 5pm when a member of the public became concerned that a holiday hire boat had not been returned as arranged at the end of the week.
Norfolk Police said boat was "quickly located" near to Salhouse Little Broad tied to a tree with the teenager unharmed on board.
A Norfolk police spokesman said: "She has spent the evening in protective police custody and will be spoken to by specially trained officers later today.
"The boat has been recovered and returned to a boat yard at Horning where the boat will be examined.
"Enquiries are on-going to determine the circumstances surrounding the incident and to establish the whereabouts of the 13 year old’s parents."
The spokesman confirmed that the stretch of water was likely to be shut for most of the day while police conducted their search.
He added: “It is an on-going inquiry. We are searching for the girl’s mother and her boyfriend.”
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