A MISSING Brit has tragically been found dead near his family holiday home in Portugal.
Police spent the weekend searching for the 28-year-old man after his relatives reported him missing on Friday.
GettyA missing Brit has tragically been found dead near his family holiday home in Portugal[/caption]
The search in the area around the village of Saboia near the town of Odemira just above the Algarve in Portugal’s Alentejo region was called off yesterday following the grim discovery.
Police had been joined by firefighters and used drones and sniffer dogs in the hunt.
Today officials were unable to confirm exactly where the unnamed Brit’s body was found.
But the search is understood to have focused on the area around the rural property where the dead man was spending time before being expanded to dense woodland close to the banks of the Mira River.
The results of the autopsy are unlikely to be publicly released but police sources said today the death was not believed to be crime-related.
Local reports said the British man, who is understood to have travelled to the holiday home every year, had unspecified “health problems.”
Village residents said he was not well-known in the area.