The victim, whom police declined to identify, was an apparent suicide victim from Hampshire County whose body entered the river north of Holyoke.
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Holyoke police retrieved the body of an apparent suicide victim from the Connecticut River on Saturday morning.HOLYOKE -- Authorities pulled a body from the Connecticut River shortly after 7 a.m. Saturday.
The body of an apparent suicide victim was spotted in the vicinity of 25 Gatehouse Road, Holyoke Police Lt. Michael Higgins said Sunday.
"There was a body recovered out of the river," he said.
Police did not release the gender or name of the victim, whose body likely entered the river north of Holyoke in Hampshire County, according to Higgins.
The victim was not a Holyoke resident, he said.
No further information was available.
The Holyoke incident was the second apparent suicide victim found dead in a public setting on Saturday. A couple of hours after the river incident, a person apparently died after coming in contact with high-tension wires in Chicopee.
Chicopee authorities declined to release any information about that death. A ranking city police officer said investigators were treating the incident as a possible suicide.
THE MAP BELOW shows the approximate location where Holyoke police retrieved a body from the Connecticut River Saturday morning:
