PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Coast Guard has suspended the search for an 11-year-old boy missing in the Delaware River since Friday night along with a 43-year-old man whose body has been recovered.
Officials said the effort was suspended at about 1 p.m. Saturday after rescuers searched about 26 square miles of the river for about nine hours.
Petty Officer 3rd Class Crystalynn Kneen, a Coast Guard spokeswoman, says the boy and two men were on a 16-foot recreational boat near the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge linking Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
The boy went into the water Friday evening, and one of the men jumped in to try to rescue him. The other man told authorities that by the time he turned the boat around, he had lost sight of the two in the water. The man's body was recovered early Saturday about 200 yards away. Officials say neither was wearing a life jacket.
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