Body Recovered From The Merrimack River In Hooksett; Identity Currently Unknown

HOOKSETT, NH — Hooksett firefighters have fished a body out of the Merrimack River on Monday evening.

Around 6:15 p.m., Hooksett police received a report from a bicyclist on Route 3A who believed they saw a person in the river. County dispatchers alerted Capital Region Fire Dispatch to the call, and they sent Hooksett fire and rescue teams to the area of West River Road between Riverside Street and Hackett Hill Road for a report of “an item” floating in the water. Police asked dispatch if the witness saw the body on their side of the river or the opposite.

A few minutes later, police confirmed the object was a body in the river.

“We have no way to get to it from here,” one officer said. “We’re going to need Fire’s boat or Marine Patrol.”

Hooksett firefighters said they would be heading to the village station around 6:30 p.m. to retrieve a boat and launch it into the river while other firefighters assisted police on the river’s shore. The boat was launched from Lambert Park, went to the scene, recovered the body, and returned it to the boat launch around 7 p.m.

Later, Marine Patrol and New Hampshire State Police arrived at the scene.

News 603 posted a video from the recovery effort on Facebook.

And here.

No information regarding the body is available at the time of publication.

The last known search for a body in the Merrimack River involved a man jumping from the Manchester Street Bridge in Concord on March 20. The man has still not been found and is presumed missing.

Concord NH Patch will update this post when more information becomes available.

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