SD River Search Changes From Rescue To Recovery

Two adults who went underwater in a river in Sioux Falls while helping rescue a 6-year-old boy who had fallen in are presumed drowned.

 

 

 

 

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - Two adults who went underwater in a river in Sioux Falls while helping rescue a 6-year-old boy who had fallen in are presumed drowned.

Sioux Falls Fire Chief Jim Sideras says searchers on the Big Sioux River had changed their focus from a rescue mission to one of recovery.

None of the people have been identified. Sideras said the woman is a relative of the boy's but not his mother. He said she jumped into the water Thursday evening to try to save the boy, and the man jumped in to try to save the woman and child.

The boy emerged from the water a short time later downstream at Falls Park.  He's with family and is fine.

(KFGO News file photo)

 

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