Body of missing girl found in New Jersey’s Passaic River after 2-day search, mayor says

The body of a missing child has been found in the Passaic River in New Jersey after a two-day search, officials said Friday.

Passaic Mayor Hector Lora said the 10-year-old girl’s body was found in the water under the Market Street Bridge, going south toward Newark, just before 7 p.m. ET Friday.

Crews have been searching the river since Wednesday evening, when police say three children were swept into the water while they were playing near a boat ramp at Pulaski Park in Passaic.

One child, an 11-year-old girl, was able to get out of the river on her own, but the other two children, a 10-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl, went missing in the water.

Search teams found the boy’s body in the river late Wednesday night, but they were unable to find the missing girl.

The search resumed Thursday and continued all day Friday. Crews were just about to end the search for the evening when her body was discovered, the mayor said.

Since Wednesday evening, search teams have covered nearly nine miles of the Passaic River using boats, sonar, drones and cadaver dogs.

The mayor said all three children are from Garfield, New Jersey, but one family has ties to Passaic. The 11-year-old girl and the 10-year-old boy are siblings, Lora said.

The names of the children have not been released.

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