Moment cops rescue 5-year-old autistic boy stuck in a drain

New footage shows the dramatic moment Georgia police rescued a five-year-old boy with autism from a sewer drain.

The rescue mission started when officers responded to reports of a missing five-year-old boy who had wandered away from the playground at Peachtree Ridge Park in Suwanee, Georgia, on November 15, according to a statement from the Gwinnett County Police Department.

Police searched for the boy for nearly an hour before one officer discovered a fence near a retention pond had been pulled up. When he went under it, he noticed there was a nearby sewer drain…

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