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Body of teenage boy found at Toronto school playground

Published : 18 Oct 2019, 11:32

  DF-Xinhua Report
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The body of a male teenager was found Thursday morning in the playground of Sixteenth Avenue Public School, Richmond Hill of Canada's Greater Toronto Area, according to the York Region police.

The body was found at about 8:20 a.m. Thursday.

Police have not identified the teenager but had been searching overnight for a missing 16-year-old boy named Xingzhou Chen.

Chen went out for a jog about 10:00 p.m. Wednesday and did not return home.

Chen's family reported him missing to police at about 1:00 a.m. Thursday.