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The search for a 7-year-old girl who vanished from her Massachusetts home came to an end on Monday after her body was found in a river.
“We are all heartbroken to be here this afternoon to report that it appears that the end of the search has come with the recovery of a body of a young child, preliminarily identified as 7-year-old Anna Mburu,” Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said at anews conferenceMonday.
Anna, who had autism and was nonverbal, was found in eight to nine feet of water about 15 to 20 yards from shore, police said. Although there were no obvious signs of foul play, the chief medical examiner will make a positive identification and determine the cause of death.
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Anna’s family called Lowell Police around 3 p.m. Sunday after she disappeared from the family’s driveway, investigators said.
“The environmental police were able to locate on one of their boats an image that they believed to be Anna. They were using what technology referred to as side scan or sonar,” Ryan said in the news conference.
Lowell City Manager Tom Golden, who attended the vigil, toldThe Lowell Sunthat while the outcome of the search was tragic, the community’s response made him proud.
“It was a beautiful thing last night to see the number of [people] walking around until 11:30 with their flashlights out looking for wherever a child could be,” Golden told the paper. “Hundreds of individual people walking up and down the streets just trying to see if there would be a better outcome.”
source: people.com
