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Divers find body in Texas river of Audrii Cunningham, 11-year-old girl missing since last week

Divers have recovered the body of 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham from a Texas river days after the girl went missing, and authorities are preparing to file a murder charge against a friend of her father who lived on her family’s property, a sheriff said Tuesday afternoon.

Polk County Sheriff Byron Lyons said Audrii's body was found by divers during a search in the Trinity River in a rural area north of Houston. Her body was located about 10 miles from her home near Lake Livingston.

“My heart aches with this news,” Lyons said.

Audrii's family had reported her missing on Thursday after she failed to return after school to her home in Livingston. After she was reported missing, investigators discovered that she never got on the bus to go to school that morning.

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