The body of Mason Szanto has been found in the remote outback town of Leigh Creek in South Australia’s north.
Key points:
- An 18-year-old man’s body has been found in an outback South Australian town
- He had been missing since October 3
- The death has been ruled as not suspicious
Mr Szanto was last seen on October 3 at about 10:00am near the Leigh Creek sports oval.
He had travelled to Leigh Creek with his girlfriend to visit her family.
There has been widespread social media coverage of the missing man with his family pleading for more information on his disappearance in the last few weeks.
The Szanto family said in a previous statement they had not been coping well with the 18-year-old’s disappearance.
“We just need our boy home. Our family is absolutely broken,” his sister Kathleen Szanto previously told the ABC.
SA Police said there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding his death.
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