Thames search LIVE: Child missing in river as coastguard issues update

Emergency services are responding to reports that a child is missing in the River Thames near the Royal Terrace Pier, Gravesend. In a statement, His Majesty's Coastguard confirmed it had been called to a report of two children struggling in the water and that one, a boy, had been rescued. However, the search is ongoing for the second child, believed to be a girl. The children's ages have not been revealed.

The statement said: "The alarm was raised at about 1.35pm. Metropolitan Police boats are attending as well as the RNLI lifeboat from Gravesend, Kent Police, and a police helicopter."

South East Coast Ambulance Service said a "male patient was assessed and treated" at the scene before being taken to hospital for further medical treatment.

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