The body of a teenage student, who disappeared from his school dormitory 106 days ago, was found on Sunday in the mountains near the school, local police said.
DNA tests have confirmed that the body found hanging in a forest in the Jinji Mountain area of Yanshan County in east China's Jiangxi Province, was Hu Xinyu, who mysteriously disappeared from his school dormitory on October 14, police said in an announcement on Sunday.
Clothes on the body also match those that Hu was wearing when he went missing, and a digital recorder was found near the body, they added.
Body of missing schoolboy found hanging in mountain areaTi Gong.
Jinji Mountain, where Hu Xinyu's body was found, is just one minute's walk (60 meters) from his school, according to Baidu Maps.
An autopsy was performed on Hu at the city's Qianshan County Funeral Home on Sunday afternoon. But results have not been released.