Body found in search for missing Kiwi

Michael Junior Huria. Photo Twitter/Ellenbrook Police
Michael Junior Huria. Photo Twitter/Ellenbrook Police
Police believe a body found in a national park northeast of Perth is that of a missing New Zealand man.

West Australian police have been searching for Michael Junior Huria (23), who went missing on Monday in what relatives have said might be a spiritual journey.

Police received information about 3.30pm on Sunday that a body had been found in the Walyunga National Park, close to Ellenbrook where Mr Huria went missing.

Police said today they believed the body was Mr Huria's.

''Coronial and forensic officers will attend the scene this morning to conduct further enquiries,'' a spokeswoman said.

Mr Huria, who also goes by the surname Sullivan, hasn't been in touch with family or friends since leaving his Ellenbrook home after 4am on Monday last week.

Mr Huria's family and friends have already begun posting tributes to him online, including his brother Tamati, who shared a photograph of the pair on Facebook.
 
"Love you so much little brother I know your soul is at peace and we will be together again one day brother fly high in the arms of angels," he wrote. 
 
Tamati told reporters on Saturday his brother was ''a bit lost at the moment", and had recently quit his job as a builder.
 

"We don't know but we think he might have gone out on a spiritual journey of some kind - he's quite inclined in that way."

A woman has told police she might have struck a pedestrian in the area last Monday night.

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