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Metropolitan Police<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\nA picture of an 11-year-old girl who went missing in the River Thames on Monday has been released by the Metropolitan Police.<\/p>\n The force said a recovery mission was under way along the Thames to find Kaliyah Coa.<\/p>\n Police were called at about 13:20 BST after Kaliyah, who had been playing during a school inset day, entered the water near Bargehouse Causeway, near London City Airport in east London.<\/p>\n Emergency services launched a “large-scale response” to the incident, the force said, but crews from the London Ambulance Service, LFB and the RNLI were later stood down.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n On Tuesday, a witness who lives near the causeway said he had been alerted to the incident by the children who were with Kaliyah “shouting, screaming”.<\/p>\n His neighbour, 59-year-old Shaleen Rajaendram, added: “Then I saw suddenly two kids were coming out to the top of the bridge, I said ‘what happened?’<\/p>\n “Then they said ‘one of my friends was playing in the water, one of my friends has gone into water and she’s gone underneath and we can’t find her’.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Ch Supt Dan Card from the Met, local policing commander for north-east London, said the force was committed to finding Kaliyah, and were using drone technology and boats as part of their “thorough search over a wide area”.<\/p>\n “Specialist officers are supporting Kaliyah’s family through this deeply upsetting time and our thoughts go out to all those impacted by what has happened.”<\/p>\n He added: “I’d like to thank the members of public, our first-responding officers, and colleagues from other emergency services, as they responded rapidly to carry out a large-scale search during a highly pressurised and distressing time.”<\/p>\n The force is appealing for witnesses.<\/p>\n The search on Monday involved boats and helicopters from HM Coastguard, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and London Fire Brigade.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/bbcx\/grey-placeholder.png\")
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