The girl`s body was found early Friday evening in the river near a Philadelphia wastewater treatment plant about 30 miles from where she was carried away, authorities said. But, the pain we feel is nowhere near what these families have been through,” the police statement said, vowing to the missing boy “we will never stop until we can bring you home.`` “We have no words to describe how we are feeling except truly heartbroken. Agencies to the south will also be checking their sections along the river, police said.
Hundreds of people including search and rescue teams, marine units and police and fire personnel have scoured the area with the aid of ``K-9s, sonar, drones, boats, divers, heavy equipment, GPS mapping and air units,`` police said, adding that they were now at the point that “our search will be dependent upon the conditions of the river.”Īuthorities have centered their efforts on an area near where the creek that flooded enters the Delaware River, and plan to use divers there when possible and also put K-9 units on islands in the river as water levels recede.
Upper Makefield Township police said in a Facebook post that although 2- year-old Matilda Sheils had been “brought home to her loving family” after her body was recovered, officials are “devastated that we have not yet been able to reunite Conrad with his sister and family.`` (AP) _ Search teams in Pennsylvania were focusing on one underwater area earlier this week as they try to find a 9-month-old boy swept away in a flash flood, hours after authorities confirmed that the body of his 2-year-old sister was recovered from the Delaware River.
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