During a holiday with his family, a two-year-old disappeared from their campsite and was later found around a mile downstream. He was taken to hospital but tragically pronounced dead
A two-year-old boy has tragically been found dead after he went missing from a caravan during a family camping trip for Father’s Day.
The toddler had been staying in a trailer with his family and is believed to have left their mobile home without anyone noticing. His family reported him missing early on Saturday while they had been camping in the Manorlands area of Utah, the Summit County Sheriff’s Office said.
At around 11.15am, a passerby reportedly found the boy unresponsive in a drainage or runoff ditch around one mile downstream from where he had been camping with his family. The Sheriff’s Office reported that the two-year-old was taken to a hospital in Wyoming, US, before being moved to a Salt Lake City hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
An investigation has been launched, and authorities are looking into when the boy was last seen alive. It is thought to have been a “tragic accident”, officials have said.
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The Sheriff’s spokesperson, Skyler Talbot, told local news outlets: “We are fairly early in the investigation. However, at this time, there’s nothing to indicate this is more than a tragic accident.
“We are going to be working with the Utah Office of the Medical Examiner, and we hope to have some preliminary results from them as to the cause and manner of death, hopefully in the coming days.”
According to Talbot, there was a “large number” of the boy’s family camping in the same area. It is unclear exactly how far away it was from their campsite to the water where the boy was found, but Talbot said it was within eyesight and walking distance.
The spokesperson said: “It’s certainly not lost on us that this is Father’s Day. This is incredibly tragic. There’s a mother who’s lost her son; there’s a father who’s lost his son; and there’s a grieving family. We are going to investigate this fully, but right now, our thoughts are with the family during this time.”