LA DUE, Mo. -- A 10-year-old boy drowned Sunday while wading in a creek in Henry County in eastern Missouri.
Brandon Brown, of Montrose, Mo., was playing with friends about 12:30 p.m. when he waded downstream away from the group, the Missouri State Water Patrol said. The boy slipped, fell into a 3-foot hole and drowned.
His body was recovered about 20 minutes later.
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