YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — The Yakima County sheriff’s water rescue team has recovered the body of a 3-year-old child who drowned Monday in the Yakima River. The Yakima Herald-Republic reports the rescue team was called to help Yakama Nation Tribal Police around 8 p.m. Monday, after a report that the boy — a Yakama Nation citizen — had fallen into the river north of Toppenish, according to sheriff’s spokesman Casey Schilperoort. Schilperoort says rescuers found the boy’s body around 10:40 a.m. Tuesday about a mile east of where he fell in, near Zillah.
3-year-old Yakama Nation child drowns in river
