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Incoming British High Commissioner to Fiji reported missing for 6 days

Incoming British High Commissioner to Fiji reported missing for 6 days

By Shanil Singh
13/05/2020
Incoming British High Commissioner to Fiji, Richard Morris. [image: The Sun]

Incoming British High Commissioner to Fiji, Richard Morris has been reported missing in Bentley, Hampshire in England for 6 days.

Morris was supposed to replace outgoing High Commissioner Melanie Hopkins in July this year.

The BBC reports that police are searching a forest as part of efforts to find Morris after he left his home in Bentley, Hampshire for exercise last week.

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Police say about 50 specialists are using dogs and drones to search nearby Alice Holt Forest.

Morris was the UK's ambassador to Nepal for four years until 2019.

[Source: BBC]

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