8:20am Friday 30th July 2010
THE funeral took place last night of a Blackburn man whose body was recovered from an East Lancashire reservoir on Wednesday afternoon.
Abbas Mulla, 46, of Cromwell Street, was found at Entwistle Reservoir, near Edgworth, at 4.30pm on Wednesday, police said.
Officers were called to the beauty spot in the morning after an abandoned car with its windows smashed was spotted in the reservoir car park.
A wide-scale search was launched at 7.30am with a police helicopter, officers searching the surrounding woodlands and divers entering the reservoir.
Visitors to the reservoir on Wednesday were turned away by police.
Mr Mulla's body was pulled from the water at 4.30pm.
There are no suspicious circumstances surrounding the death.
An inquest into Mr Mulla's death was opened and adjourned yesterday.
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