ALBUQUERQUE - The body of a Rio Rancho teenager missing since Thursday and feared drowned in the Rio Grande was recovered Tuesday afternoon near the Alameda Bridge, authorities said.

The body of 13-year-old Corbin Hayes was snagged in a tree along the river and was partially submerged, Albuquerque Fire Department Chief Robert Ortega said.

Authorities said a volunteer searcher walking with her two children along the river spotted the body about 2:15 p.m. The woman's name was not released.

Ortega said the body was partially covered by a branch and AFD personnel cut the branch to free the body so it could be recovered.

Hayes was in seventh grade this past school year at Mountain View Middle School in Rio Rancho.

He was last seen being swept away by a current while swimming with friends in the river near his home in the River’s Edge III subdivision in Rio Rancho about 2:45 p.m. on Thursday. His brother Garrett, 15, tried to rescue Hayes, according to a family friend.

Authorities were contacted, and an extensive search was launched. That search, which included helicopters, boats, ATVs, divers and some 200 personnel, failed to turn up any clues of Hayes’ whereabouts and was suspended Sunday night.

But Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chávez on Monday ordered the search be resumed Tuesday morning. He said it would resume where Hayes was last seen in Rio Rancho.

Family and friends, who had set up their own command posts near the riverbank, also continued to look for signs of the teen along the Rio Grande.