The research and rescue teams in Lethbridge resumed their search for a 17 -year -old boy who was missing in the Oldman river on Wednesday evening.
Police said that the fire and emergency services of Lethbridge were called around 7 p.m. to report that the teenager went underwater while he was trying to swim across the river near the top bridge and had not resurfaced.
Police deployed a drone and started an aerial search while the Lethbridge fire service launched a boat equipped with Sonar equipment to help search the water.
The members of the Lethbridge Search and Rescue Association were also called to help search the banks of the river.
The research and rescue teams resumed the search for the waters and banks of the Oldman river, near Lethbridge, Thursday morning after a 17 -year -old boy went in the water on Wednesday evening and is presumed drowned.
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The operations were suspended when the darkness has settled, which makes it too dangerous to continue.
The research teams resumed their work early Thursday morning and completed a large area near the high -level bridge that the police ask the public to avoid.
The Lethbridge police have completed a large area near the high -level bridge and asks the public to avoid the section while research continues the search for a teenager who is presumed to have drowned.
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The agents interviewed several witnesses and said that they offered support for the teenager’s family.
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