TULKAREM (Ma'an) -- Rescue crews on Thursday found the body of a 28-year-old man who had been missing in the northern West Bank floods for three days.

Maher Buriya, 28, had not been heard from since Tuesday, when he disappeared in the flooding in Wadi al-Tin, south of Tulkarem.

Civil defense forces from Ramallah and Qalqiliya joined the local service in the manhunt.

A lawyer from Tulkarem, Buriya had recently got engaged.

Rescue teams found another body during the search, but it appeared to have been washed out of a grave in the Nur Shams cemetery.