Concerned community members are continuing the search for a four-year-old boy who fell into the water on Thursday while fishing along a river in Guysborough County.
RCMP said the boy was fishing on the Salmon River close to where it empties into Chedabucto Bay with a man and another child on Thursday afternoon. The man jumped in the water immediately but wasn’t able to rescue the child.
More than 13 agencies — including fire departments, volunteer search and rescue teams, and Fisheries and Oceans Canada — were called into service to help find the boy, but the search was suspended on Saturday at 5 p.m. AT.
RCMP said there was no information to suggest the child got out of the water safely. Any further co-ordinated search efforts would resume by air at a later date, RCMP said.
Community members have not stopped searching for the boy, who was identified as four-year-old Oakley in a Facebook post by Guysborough-Tracadie MLA Greg Morrow.
“Thank you to all of the first responders from near and far who are assisting during this very sad and difficult time. Keep your porch light on for Oakley,” Morrow wrote.
FULL STORY: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/search-for-missing-child-april-22-1.7515329
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