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Body recovered from a pond in Des Moines

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June 2nd, 2019 by Ric Hanson

Rescue crews responding at around 3:30-p.m. Saturday to a report that a child went into a pond in Des Moines and never resurfaced, have recovered a body.

According to KCCI, the body of a boy was found in the pond on Des Moines’ northwest side, at around 6:30-p.m. The child’s name was not immediately released.

The incident occurred in an old quarry that’s about 30-to 40-feet deep toward the middle. The pond is located in the 4200 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway.