Dad drowns saving his three youngsters in New Jersey river: police

A father drowned after saving his three youngsters who have been struggling in a New Jersey river Wednesday afternoon.

The 42-year-old South River resident saved the lives of his youngsters — ages 8, 11 and 13 — after they went into the Millstone River and “grew to become distressed,” however tragically by no means made it out of the water himself, Franklin Township police mentioned.

A bystander dialed 911 shortly earlier than 2:15 p.m. and emergency responders rushed into the water however have been unable to search out the youngsters’s father.

Medics handled the youngsters on the scene and so they have been launched with out additional medical consideration, police mentioned.

A dive group from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Workplace pulled the dad’s physique from the river greater than three hours later, at about 5:30 p.m.

The daddy’s identification was not instantly launched as authorities work to let relations know of his loss of life.

Franklin police are investigating the drowning.

Simply final month, two different fathers drowned saving youngsters from completely different our bodies of water in separate incidents on Lake Michigan and Lake Nockamixon.