UPDATE: 12:30pm EST
Police have found the two missing Staten Island boys who were swept away during Hurricane Sandy.
A detective said the 2-year-old was found waist deep in water shortly after 11 a.m. His 4-year-old brother was found 20 feet away in a swamp.
The boys were swept away when their mother’s car was stuck in rising floodwaters just before 6 p.m. Monday.
SOURCE: DNA Info
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In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, many people are still missing. Police are searching for two young boys on Staten Island who disappeared during the superstorm, which hit the outer borough particularly hard with massive amounts of flooding.
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NYPD officers from the Scuba Unit have fanned out across a Staten Island marsh on Father Capodanno Boulevard in search of the boys, 2 and 4 years old. Their mother told police the boys were swept away by rising waters as the storm hit Monday night.
As reported by NBC News:
The mother had been stranded in the marsh at the height of the storm with the boys, authorities said. She told police that as the water started to rise, the car stalled and she got out of the car clutching the 2-year-old son in her arms and her 4-year-old son by the hand.
As the surge came through, she lost her grip on her son and the boys were swept away by the water, she told police. She said she tried to get help but no one was around.
As the storm worsened, she became stranded, she said. She wound up in the marsh, where she hung to a tree. She was able to make her way out around 7:30 a.m. and flagged police.
The mother’s blue SUV was pulled out of the marsh earlier Wednesday, but still no sign of the two boys.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the youngsters.
SOURCE: NBC News
