A nine-year-old boy and his father are presumed to have drowned a day after they were swept away by the Red River near Winnipeg, police said.
Viktor Hergert, 41, and his son, Andrean, were fishing Saturday near the Lockport Dam not far from their community of Oakbank, just east of Winnipeg.
Police said the boy fell in the river and his father jumped in to try to save him. But they were carried away in the current.
An RCMP recovery team was unable to send divers into the water because of the fast-flowing high water.
Corrections and Clarifications
- Viktor Hergert and his son, Andrean, were swept away on Saturday, not Friday as was originally reported. July 8, 2007|10:59 a.m. ET
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