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The body of former WWE star Shad Gaspard has been found on a California beach Wednesday morning.

This comes days after he went missing in the water, police confirmed. Gaspard was 39. NY DailyNews revealed that his body was found at Venice Beach shortly before 1:30 a.m. after washing onto the shore, the Los Angeles Police Department said.“The descendant was identified as Shad Gaspard and next of kin was noticed,”police said in a statement. Officials had launched a search for Gaspard on Sunday after he went missing while out for a swim with his son at Venice Beach amid strong riptide currents.

In an update Wednesday, the Los Angeles Fire Department, Lifeguard Division tweeted that officials from multiple departments arrived at the scene shortly after 2 a.m. local time in response to “a report of a body along the shoreline that matches the description of Sunday’s missing swimmer.”

Gaspard went missing following an ocean rescue attempt by lifeguards at about 3:40 p.m Sunday, a source with the LAFD, Lifeguard Division confirmed Monday to the Daily News. Amid the rescue attempt, one of the two victims “did submerge,” the source said. Lifeguards rescued a 10-year-old victim, the source said, while Gaspard’s wife, Siliana Gaspard, identified her husband as the missing swimmer on social media.

The primary factor yesterday was the hazardous surf, with waves at four to six feet,” the lifeguard division source told the News Monday. “We had strong lateral and strong rip currents through the entire Venice area. Our lifeguards were making hundreds of rescues.” Family members of Gaspard arrived at the beach Wednesday, shortly after the body was discovered, according to Fox LA, which reports the body was found less than a mile from where the WWE star went missing. The Brooklyn-born Gaspard began his stint with WWE in 2006.

His contract ended in 2010, and he later appeared in numerous TV and film roles. Gaspard’s wife posted about his disappearance multiple times on Instagram.“Shad is a fighter, a warrior and a magical soul,” she wrote Tuesday. “We are hoping and praying for his safe return.”

A Lagos State High Court judge, Mrs Oke Lawal and her husband Chief Bayo Lawal have been awarded N500,000 as compensation following the loss of their luggage by Air France.

The couple had accused the airline of delaying two of their luggages and losing another on July 26, 2015 during their trip to Florence, Italy, Paris in France and the British capital, London in their lawsuit.

The couple’s claim of Air France breaching its contract of carriage by air and causing them mental anguish and distress, was upheld by Justice Saliu Saidu of the Federal High Court in Lagos.

The Nation reported that Chief Lawal said he was contacted by an unidentified person on the internet, claiming to be in possession of his luggage on July 29, 2015. He assumed that the individual had apparently broken into his luggage, and was able to orally identify the contents thereof including his iPad and sensitive drug medication.

Reacting to the couple’s claim for general damages of N30 million and £2,871 for the loss of luggage, its contents and compensation for the mental anguish and mental distress they suffered following the contract breach, the  Airline through its counsel Ogunyemi Olanrewaju, denied liability and urged the court to dismiss the plaintiffs’ claims.

Justice Saidu found merit in the couple’s case and awarded N500,000 compensation in their favour.

He said;

“The provisions of Section 22(2) of the Montreal Convention 1999, is very clear, the damages arising from loss or delay of luggage is limited to 1,000 Special Drawing Right.

“Delay of the defendant to deliver the check -in Luggage of Justice Oke Lawal amounts to a breach of contract of carriage by Air.

“The defendant is liable for loss and delay of the plaintiffs Luggage and the defendant is to pay the plaintiffs 1,000 Special Drawing Right each.

“General damages in the sum of N500,000 only in favour of the plaintiffs.”