PERTH ANDOVER, New Brunswick (AP) – Maine game wardens went across the border to New Brunswick on Tuesday to monitor the recovery of a child’s body that was discovered on Tinker Dam on the Aroostook River.

The late-afternoon discovery came a mile downriver from the border, about 3 miles downriver from Fort Fairfield in Maine.

Mark Latti, a spokesman for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, said authorities believe the child is 3-year-old Alexandra Winship-Wright. She was reported missing in April from her home in Fort Fairfield, prompting a search involving several agencies in Maine and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in New Brunswick.

“We’ve told the family we believe it’s her,” Latti said. He said it would take a couple of days before the medical examiner’s office in New Brunswick identifies the body.

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