DELAWARE, Ohio (WCMH) — Two women are dead and three men are missing Monday after an emergency along the Scioto River.
Police responded to Riverside Drive near O’Shaughnessy Reservoir Park shortly before 9:15 p.m. on Sunday on reports of an emergency along the Scioto River after a motorist noticed a young child who was “clearly distraught.” Police said two women were rescued and taken to a hospital, where they were pronounced dead.
On Monday morning, officials resumed a search for three men believed to have been in the water, Delaware County Sheriff Jeffrey Balzer said. Search efforts were expected to begin again between 9 and 10 a.m., a captain with the Concord Township Fire Department said.
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Balzer said there a language barrier in communicating with the children, but it’s believed the people went to the river to fish when one person began to swim and others attempted to rescue them…