Body of 9-year-old boy found drowned in Con River

Before that, at around 11:35 a.m. on July 2, two children, Tran Dang C. (born in 2013) and Nguyen Quang Ph. (born in 2012), both living in Xuan Huong hamlet, Huong Son commune, and a friend, went together to catch grasshoppers to feed the birds.

By evening, C. and Ph. still had not returned home. Relatives were frantic and searched everywhere but found no trace of them.

Relatives went to meet the friend who went with C. and Ph. and asked. They learned that after catching grasshoppers, C. and Ph. invited each other to go swimming in the river, but the friend, who knew how to swim, went home first.

The river section where the children's belongings were found on the bank. Photo: Nguyen Tran

Relatives rushed to the Con River bank, Xuan Huong hamlet, Huong Son commune, and discovered some belongings including 2 pairs of sandals, 2 baseball caps, and 2 shirts of the 2 children on the bank, so they suspected that the children might have gone swimming or slipped and fallen into the river and drowned.

Upon receiving the information, the Fire Prevention, Fire Fighting and Rescue Police Department - Nghe An Provincial Police directed Fire Fighting and Rescue Team No. 5 to mobilize people and vehicles to the scene to search for the victims.

At 7:00 a.m. on July 3, the Party Committee, authorities and relatives discovered C.'s body floating on the surface of the Con River.

Currently, authorities are trying to find the whereabouts of Ph. who is still missing.