SA: Missing autistic five-year-old found dead in river

AAP General News (Australia)
12-31-2006
SA: Missing autistic five-year-old found dead in river

A five-year-old autistic boy missing from his home in the Adelaide southern suburbs
since yesterday evening .. has been found dead in a nearby river.

Police and state emergency services spent most of the night searching for the boy ..

who's believed to have climbed over the front gate of his Noarlunga Downs home .. and
wandered off.

His body was found in the Onkaparinga River just before 10am.

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KEYWORD: AUTISTIC (ADELAIDE)

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