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Rescuers are searching for a man who went missing in a river in Mt Aspiring National Park on Thursday night.
Emergency services were alerted shortly 5pm that a man had fallen from a rock into the river and had failed to resurface.
Police said a search team was immediately sent to the area, but they did not find him.
The search has resumed on Friday morning.
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