After a five-day search, Zapopan Civil Protection officers this week located the body of a 15-year-old boy swept away by the Santiago River on the northern outskirts of the Guadalajara metropolitan area.
According to reports, two boys and a girl went out in the early hours of Sunday, June 30 apparently to take photographs at a street junction where a fast-flowing creek fed into the nearby Huentitan Canyon and Santiago River. The creek ran through Zapopan’s Higuera neighborhood on the northern edge of the metropolitan area, not far from the city zoo.
As they perched on a large rock in the middle of the creek taking photos, the heavens opened, reports stated. The water levels rose and the current grew fiercer, and before long the two boys became trapped, and were eventually swept away by the current.
The girl ran to inform neighbors and a Zapopan search-and-rescue team was quickly dispatched. While they managed to find one of the boys safely, the other could not be located.
On July 3, following an extensive search, Zapopan Civil Protection officers found the body of the missing boy upstream on the Santiago River, in the municipality of San Cristobal de la Barranca, about 30 kilometers from the northern outskirts of the metropolitan area. The rescuers said they discovered the body thanks to drones.
Also on July 3, firefighters from Tlajomulco de Zúñiga located the body of a 62-year-old man who fell into a storm drain in the Chulavista subdivision of the municipality on June 27. He was found less than two kilometers from the place where he was last seen.