Rescue teams have been searching for a woman feared to have fallen into a flood-swollen burn.

The woman is thought to have been swept away after falling from a quad bike beside the burn which joins the River Nith near thornhill

Police, Moffat Mountain Rescue team and Nith Inshore Rescue launched a search after the alarm was raised at about 1130 yesterday

The overturned quad bike was found near Crairieknowe Farm, Thornhill.

Police are concerned that the woman may have fallen into a burn which joins the River Nith.”

A spokesman said: “We were called to attend an incident north of Thornhill where a person had come off a quad bike beside a small stream which was in flood water.”

The search was called off at nightfall and is expected to continue on Tuesday.

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