{"id":784712,"date":"2026-05-09T17:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/784712\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T17:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:26:14","slug":"toddler-dies-after-pulled-from-ottawa-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/784712\/","title":{"rendered":"Toddler dies after pulled from Ottawa River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>A two-year-old child has died after being pulled from the Ottawa River Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa police were called to an area near the Kichi Z\u012bb\u012b M\u012bkan Parkway just before 7 p.m. after reports a child was missing in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Police said when officers arrived, the child couldn&#8217;t be found and they started a coordinated search, including Marine Dive Team members and tactical officers, along with help from Gatineau police.<\/p>\n<p>The child was spotted about 40 minutes later in the river by the Ottawa Police Air Support Unit and pulled from the water.<\/p>\n<p>First responders began resuscitation efforts, police said, before being taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The child was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our hearts are with the child\u2019s family, loved ones, witnesses, and all those affected by this heartbreaking incident,&#8221; Ottawa police wrote in a release.<\/p>\n<p>The Ottawa police homicide unit and its sexual assault and child abuse unit are currently investigating the child&#8217;s death, as is standard practice in incidents involving the death of a young child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":784713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-784712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116545794109857938","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}