Search and rescue teams scrambled to Shrewsbury as search for missing Nathan continues
Search and rescue teams have been searching the River Severn in Shrewsbury for a missing person throughout the weekend. .
Volunteers from West Mercia Search and Rescue were put on alert to go to the Victoria Avenue area at about 10am on Saturday to "locate a high-risk missing person".
Specialist kayak search teams were again sent out on Sunday morning. A search for missing 21-year-old man Nathan Fleetwood was also arranged by the community on Sunday.
It follows searches that were conducted in the River Severn by Shrewsbury's Quarry park on Monday, as part of the search for Mr Fleetwood.
Businesses including the Armoury and the Sabrina riverboat were open and operating on Saturday but a section of Victoria Quay from the area of the Riverbank bar to the toilets in Quarry Park was cordoned off at about 11am.
Dilwyn Jones, of the Sabrina boat, said: "The first part of Victoria Quay is open but it is closed off from the Riverbank bar into the Quarry.
"I am told that none of the rescue teams have gone into the water yet but they are searching the bank of the river."
West Mercia Police has been invited to comment.
