Sheriff’s officials in Ringgold County, Sunday, said a central Iowa man died over the weekend during a canoeing accident on a farm bond. Sheriff Rob Haley says his office received a call at around 10:40-p.m. Saturday about Daniel Clint Ahrens, of Adel, who went missing during a fishing excursion on a rural farm pond near Ellston. Upon law enforcement and rescue crew’s arrival at around 11-p.m., a canoe was found upside down in the water, about 15-feet from shore. Ahrens’ body was found about 40-minutes later, also about 15-feet from shore, in about eight-feet of water.

The man was transported to the State Medical Examiner’s Office in Ankeny, where the cause of death was pending results of an autopsy. The Ringgold County Sheriff’s Office was assisted by Mount Ayr Fire, the Ringgold County Dive Team, Union Township Fire Department, Ringgold County Emergency Management, the Ringgold County Medical Examiner, and Ringgold County Ambulance.