Police in Nashua said a man’s body was recovered today after it was spotted by someone playing the popular smartphone-app game Pokemon Go.

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Police in Nashua said a man’s body was recovered today, after it was spotted by someone playing the popular smartphone-app game Pokemon Go.Click to watch News 9's coverage.The body was found in Salmon Brook near Rotary Park in Nashua.“It’s my understanding that the person who found the victim was actually playing the Pokemon game,” said Lt. Robert Giggi.Pokemon Go features a GPS-enabled map of the player’s actual surroundings. Using a smartphone’s camera, Pokemon characters appear to be moving in the real world. To earn points, platers are brought to sometimes obscure places, like the spot in Rotary Park where the body was found.Audrey Anderson is one of the millions of Americans who joined in on the Pokemon Go craze.“Yesterday, I was here to do the Poke Stop thing, and I picked up some Poke Balls, and it seemed pretty empty here,” she said. “Usually, there is people here all the time.”After the body was found Thursday afternoon by a man playing the game, Rotary Park became a Pokemon Go hot spot that is now notorious.“I came here to do my usual rounds and go shopping and then go back home, and I saw all these cars here, and I couldn’t believe it,” Anderson said.“Apparently, he was looking in kind of obscure places for something that has to do with this game, which is what brought the person that found the victim to that area,” Giggi said.Dive teams went into the water to retrieve the body.Police said they do not think there is foul play involved.An autopsy will be performed tomorrow. The victim’s name is being held until family members are notified.This is not the first discovery of a dead body found by someone playing the wildly popular game. Last week, a young woman in Wyoming stumbled upon a man’s body as she was trying to catch a Pokemon along a river bank.Download the free WMUR app.