The body of 20-year-old Indian-origin student Gurdeep Hayer has been found in Manchester city centre, eight days after he went missing, UK police said today.
The body was found in River Medlock in the city centre of Manchester yesterday and was identified today as that of Gurdeep, who was missing since January 2.
The Greater Manchester Police investigating his disappearance today said the body was found in the river near the York Street in the Manchester city centre and was today formally identified as that of Gurdeep.
"There are not believed to be any suspicious circumstances surrounding his death. A Home Office post-mortem is due to take place later this week," the police said.
The police said the search for Gurdeep had been called off after the body was discovered.
No further details were available on the circumstances related to his death.
Hayer was based in West Bromwich and had travelled to Manchester on December 31 to celebrate New Year's Eve with friends in Fallowfield.
He went out again with friends on the night of January 1 to the Sankeys nightclub, and was reported missing since early January 2.
His mother, Peramjit Kaur, became concerned after her son did not return home as planned on January 3 and reported Gurdeep missing two days later.
Gurdeep is a first-year student of Business Studies at Glyndwr University in north-east Wales. Kaur had told the media: "It is completely out of character for him not to keep in touch with me, he's a very reliable person and he's usually ringing me all the time because he knows how much I worry".