4-Year-Old Boy’s Body Found in California River, Day After Sister Found Dead

Fresno County Sheriff's Office search and rescue team members return upriver to a boat launch near the Pine Flat Dam after reports that a boy's body had been recovered on the Kings River near Sanger, Calif., on May 22, 2023. Craig Kohlruss/The Fresno Bee via AP

SANGER, Calif.—A search crew found the body of a 4-year-old boy in a surging California river May 22, a day after his 8-year-old sister died when the siblings were swept away by the current, authorities, said.

Searchers in a boat spotted the boy’s body caught against a tree in the Kings River about 1.75 miles downstream from where he and his sister went into the water, the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. The river has been closed to recreational use because of high water levels.