Galway Bay fm newsroom - The body of a Galway resident who went missing after a kayaking accident in Ecuador last weekend has been recovered.
26 year old David Higgins is a native of Kerry but had been living in Galway for a number of years.
It's understood David Higgins was a graduate of the School of Engineering at NUI Galway and a member of the college's Kayak Club.
He went missing when he and 19 year old Sligo man Alex McGourty got into difficulty during a kayaking trip last weekend.
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Mr. McGourty's body was discovered on Saturday and Ecuadorian media is now reporting that David Higgins' body has also been recovered from a tributary of the river they had been kayaking in.
