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Man's body found in wreckage of missing Western Australian fishing trawler
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Items believed to be from the trawler washed ashore on the Burrup Peninsula not long after the boat disappeared on July 16. (AAP)
A trawler that's been missing for more than two weeks off Western Australia's Pilbara coast has been found with the body of a man onboard.
Mason Carter, 26, Chad Fairley, 30, and Murray Turner, 57, failed to return to Point Samson near Karratha in their 13-metre trawler, named the Returner, on July 15 as expected.
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Police said on Sunday that they had found the boat 20km north of Karratha with the body of a man onboard, which was flown to Perth for formal identification.
The families of the three missing men have been notified.
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