Body discovered in canal of missing man who disappeared in sewer | Abroad

The man fell from his ladder into the swirling water of a stream while pruning his garden on rue de Bornival.

Meeûs was dragged along by the water on Sunday and disappeared into the sewage system. Divers of the fire brigade of Walloon Brabant started a search on Sunday around 7.30 pm. Civil defense teams continued operations until around 11 a.m. on Tuesday, when a lifeless body was discovered, Nieuwsblad reports.

A forensic doctor has established the identity of the victim, says a spokeswoman for the public prosecutor of Walloon Brabant. The family of Emmanuel Mee families came to the scene on Tuesday. The man ended up in an underground pipe system and eventually in the Brussels-Charleroi canal.

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