Police have called off a search for nineteen-year-old Orlando Nyero after a body was found in Rochdale Canal

The body of a young man has been pulled from a canal in Manchester city centre reigniting fears over the 'Manchester pusher'.

Police believe they have found the body of Orlando Nyero, 19, who has not been seen since he went missing after a night out in the early hours of Sunday morning.

The search for Orlando from Bolton was called off after the discovery in the Rochdale Canal, off Whitworth Street, at around 2.50pm on Tuesday.

The latest death in the canal is the 86th since 2007 as fear grows over a serial killer operating around the city's waterways.

However, any suggestion of a 'pusher' has simply dismissed as an urban myth by police.

However, 28 of the first 85 deaths were 'unexplained'.

Police said enquiries are ongoing into the latest body found.

A GMP spokesman said: 'Police searching for a missing man have found a body.

'Shortly before 2.50pm on Tuesday 5 June 2018, police were called to Whitworth Street West in Manchester City Centre to reports that a body had been found in a canal.

'Officers attended and found the body of a man.

'Although formal identification is yet to take place, it is believed that this is the body of 19-year-old Orlando Nyero.

The body of man has been found in the Rochdale Canal in Manchester city centre. The man was discovered in a stretch of water near Whitworth Street at around 3.20pm on Tuesday

'There are believed to be no suspicious circumstances surrounding the death.

'His family are being provided with support from officers at this time.'

Orlando had been out in Manchester with his brother and two friends on Saturday night but was not seen again after 3.35am on Sunday morning.

The group returned to the Jurys Inn Hotel on Great Bridgewater Street together but Mr Nyero then left the building.

Just last month a cyclist said he was 'lucky to be alive' after being attacked by a 'complete psychopath' on the canal path near Old Trafford football stadium - reigniting fears over a 'pusher' attacking people, mainly men, in the city.

The victim, a father-of-two, said he was pushed into the water by a man who was white and aged between 20 and 40.

When the cyclist attempted to free himself from his bike in the water and grabbed onto the sides, the man reportedly kicked his hands away, before running off.

In 2016 a Channel 4 documentary titled 'Manchester's Serial Killer?', featured former senior detective Tony Blockley who examined the evidence purporting to support the allegation that the same person may well be responsible for a catalogue of killings.

His probe focused on the deaths of three men: Souvik Pal, 18, and 21-year-olds David Plunkett and Nathan Tomlinson.

Sports teacher Mr Tomlinson's body was discovered in the River Irwell in February 2011. He had been out with friends two months before.

Despite still being clothed, the 21-year-old was found without his coat, phone, passport and wallet.

Souvik Pal (pictured) was discovered in the Bridgewater Canal in 2012 after he was last seen with an unknown male in Manchester

A documentary probed the mysterious deaths of three men who were found died in Manchester's canals. A map shows where 18 of the 86 bodies were found

An inquest into his death failed to establish if Mr Tomlinson died before or after hitting the water.

David Plunkett had been at a concert at the Daytona Racetrack, also in Trafford Park, before he went missing in April 2004.

Parents Michael and Anne are adamant David's death was the result of sinister and deadly act. They called his phone on the night he went missing and heard terrified screaming.

Trainee sports teacher Nathan Tomlinson (pictured, as a schoolboy, left, and before he died, right) was pulled from the River Irwell in February 2011. He had been out with friends two months before. Despite still being clothed, the 21-year-old was found without his coat, phone, passport and wallet

Police say his death was not suspicious.

The body of Mr Pal - a design student in Manchester - was discovered in the Bridgewater Canal three weeks after he had been ejected from a 2012 New Year's Eve party at the Warehouse Project nightclub in Trafford Park.

A coroner recorded an open verdict into his death, admitting she did not know how he ended up in the water.

Disturbingly, CCTV images recorded the teenager walking in the company of a man whose identity has never been confirmed minutes after leaving the club.

A Go Fund Me page has been set up for the family or Orlando Nyero.