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Missing Man's Body Recovered From Taunton River In Somerset

SOMERSET (CBS) -- A body was recovered from the Taunton RIver on Sunday, one day after a search began for a missing man there. The man's identity has not been released at this time.

On Saturday, the Somerset Fire Department was told that a man had taken a dinghy from the Somerset Yacht Club onto the river by Gay Street around 5 p.m. on Friday but had not returned.

A side-scan sonar operation for the man took place on Sunday. The man's body was recovered around 11 a.m. about a quarter-mile south of Pratt Avenue.

No other information is available at this time.

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