PERRY, Mo. (AP) - Missouri authorities say a seven -year-old Quincy boy has drowned while playing with other children in Mark Twain Lake.

Dalton Gibson of Quincy drowned Sunday near the Frank Russell Campground at the lake in northeast Missouri.

Authorities say the boy's father left several children alone in the water while he checked on a younger child.

When he returned, the children told him Dalton had gone under water and had not resurfaced.

The boy was found an hour later in five feet of water. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.