13 Year Old Boy Dies In Merrill Drowning

A dive team has recovered the body of a 13-year-old boy in the Wisconsin River in Merrill Sunday evening.

The Lincoln County Sheriff's office received the call at 3:27 p.m. that the boy went under water, and didn't resurface.

The Merrill Fire Department Chief Dave Savone says the boy was found by a dive team around 7:15- 7:30 p.m. about 15 feet from where he was last seen.

When search teams arrived at Ott's Park just after the call, they were able to pull three other people from the water, according to Mark Heckendorf of the Merrill Police Department.

Those three, along with the 13-year-old were swimming mid channel, just south of the boat landing at Ott's Park.

Search teams were focused primarily on the area just south of the Ott's Park boat landing.

Read more: WACD

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