Boy drowns in Pangasinan river

STA. BARBARA, Pangasinan, Philippines — A teenage boy drowned when he accidentally slipped and fell into a river in Barangay Leet here on Thursday.

The Pangasinan police provincial office reported that 18-year-old John Peter Panti was with his friends on their way to take a dip when he fell into the river and got carried away by the current.

The Sta. Barbara municipal disaster risk reduction and management office launched a search and rescue operation to save Panti. The team later found Panti unconscious and entangled in a bamboo plant downstream.

Panti was rushed to the Mapandan Community Hospital where he was declared dead on arrival by an attending doctor.