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Father's tribute to 'sweetest little boy' Noah
Noah Woods was playing at a playground with a relative before he went missing
The father of Noah Woods has said the three-year-old "will be loved forever" and no words can describe the pain of the family's loss.
Noah disappeared from a playground in Brantham, Suffolk, at about 15:00 BST on Tuesday after becoming separated from a relative.
At least 1,300 people helped to try to find him in the following 24 hours, before a child's body was discovered on Wednesday afternoon at a nearby pond.
"Noah was the sweetest and most innocent little boy, with nothing but love to give, and we are going to miss him so very much," his father Rhys Woods wrote in a post on Facebook.
Tributes are being placed next to the playground in Brantham where Noah was playing before he disappeared
"This was the most heartbreaking outcome for us, we were just hoping that he would be hiding somewhere obvious where someone could find him, that's what we kept telling ourselves the whole time."
People from as far afield as Birmingham and Hampshire turned up to help with the search for Noah, who was from East Bergholt.
Helicopters, dog units and members of the public had been scouring the area, close to the River Stour on the Suffolk-Essex border.
Reflecting on the community response, Woods said: "It seems he has made an impact across the whole nation, you have all taken Noah into you're own hearts, with all the overwhelming help, we were all just trying to bring him home to us safe and sound."