A 15-year-old boy drowned in a pond after he used a rope swing to drop into the water, police in Bedford said.
Police were dispatched to Sebbins Pond at about 7 p.m. Sunday for a report of the boy missing in the water, the department said in a news release. They tried to find him and they requested help from the Nashua Fire Department dive team, a department news release said. The New Hampshire Marine Patrol and the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department also responded.
Divers found the teen’s body a little after 9 p.m. His name wasn’t released.
“Sebbins Pond is stagnant water,” Bedford Police Capt. Timothy Lavoie told WMUR. “There’s no real flow, so the conditions of the water are pretty murky. Visibility is not very good.”
He said the water in the area where the boy was found was about 15 feet.
Associated Press