A woman has died after falling into a river from a viaduct in Bishop Auckland.
Police are trying to find out how the woman, who is apparently in her 50s, fell from the Newton Cap viaduct into the River Wear this morning.
She was in the water for several minutes before police got to the scene and pulled her out, but she was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital.
Police are attempting to trace the family of the victim.
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