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Yankton Police: Hurley Boy, 6, Accidentally Drowned In River

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YANKTON, S.D. (AP) — Authorities say they don’t suspect foul play in the death of a 6-year-old southeastern South Dakota boy whose body was recovered from the Missouri River after he went missing on Easter.

The Yankton Police Department announced Monday that preliminary autopsy results for Lincoln Hilt indicate accidental drowning caused his death.

The Hurley boy went missing April 5 while fishing with his family from the docks at a Yankton city park. He had received a fishing pole earlier that day as an Easter gift.

Family members last saw Hilt sitting on the dock about 100 yards away from where his body was found last Friday.

It took search crews several days to recover his body due to inclement weather.

Hilt was a kindergarten student at Viborg-Hurley Elementary School.

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