RUSSELL — Authorities say the body of a child reported missing has been recovered in a Massachusetts river.
A spokesman for the Hampden district attorney says the body of Jace Paduano was found by a state trooper in the Westfield River in Russell at about 7 p.m. Wednesday.
The child had been reported missing from a home in town hours earlier.
Emergency responders performed CPR at the scene but were unable to revive the child, who was then taken to Baystate Noble Hospital in Westfield where he was pronounced dead.
Authorities say the boy apparently drowned.