By Canadian Press

BODY RECOVERED

Missing child’s body found in St. Mary River

Jun 22, 2020 | 5:50 AM

CARDSTON- Tragedy has struck again on the St. Mary River in southern Alberta.

A four-year-old child who was reported missing in a provincial park has been found dead.

RCMP say their officers responded to a report of the missing child in Woolford Provincial Park, southeast of Lethbridge, early Saturday evening.

Police say that they, along with a Lethbridge search-and-rescue team and volunteers, used search dogs and a helicopter to look for the child throughout the night.

At 11:30 a.m. Sunday, RCMP boat operators located the child’s body on a sand bar in the St. Mary River, a few kilometres downstream from the park.

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Police say they are not releasing the child’s name.

Tragedy also struck further down the St Mary River earlier this month when three teenaged girls drowned while swimming and canoeing near Spring Coulee.

(The Canadian Press)