Search for Pokémon reaches a dead end
A teenager stumbled upon a dead body in a river while playing the new "augmented reality" smartphone game Pokémon Go.Shayla Wiggins, from Wyoming in the US, was exploring her home city of Riverton when she made the alarming discovery.Pokémon Go , which layers game-play onto the physical world, encourages gamers to "switch between the virtual world and the real world".The 19-year-old said she jumped over a wall to search for the Pokémon when she found the body."The Pokémons are all over Riverton. I was trying to get one from a natural water resource. I was walking towards the bridge along the shore when I saw something in the water. I had to take a second look and I realised it was a body."She added: "It was pretty shocking. I didn't really know what to do at first. But I called 911 right away and they came really quickly. I was pretty scared and cried for a while."The Fremont County Sheriff's Office said it is investigating the death of an adult male but did not mention Pokémon Go in its statement. Foul play is not suspected. ..
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