A 6-year-old boy has been missing since Thursday evening after he was swept away in a river. His mother drowned attempting to rescue him.
Emergency crews search for a missing 6-year-old boy on the Merrimack River near Amesbury, Massachusetts, June 10, 2022.A 6-year-old boy remains missing days after his mother drowned while trying to rescue him and his sister from a Massachusetts river.
The search for the boy -- identified by Massachusetts State Police as Mas DeChhat of Lowell -- resumed Saturday morning. Divers and boat operators with the state police continued to search the river along with divers from the Boston Fire Department using sonar devices and tow bars.shifted into a recovery effort"We've seen several tragedies on the river, but not usually where a whole family is affected," Newburyport Fire Chief Christopher LeClaire told reporters Friday.
As both were pulled along by the swift current, their mother "entered the water to save her children," Massachusetts State Police spokesperson Dave Procopio said in a statement Saturday. Their mother, identified as 29-year-old Boua DeChhat, "was not known to swim," Procopio said.While the three were swept upstream by the current, the children's father also went into the water to try and save them.
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