A 4-year-old boy drowned in a pond Tuesday afternoon after going missing from his home in Fridley.
The Fridley Police Department responded just before 1:30 p.m. to reports of a boy going missing from his home in the 1600 block of Rice Creek Road NE., the Anoka County Sheriff's Office said in a news release Tuesday night.
Shortly after arriving, officers spotted the unresponsive child in a nearby pond and pulled him out.
The Fridley Fire Department and additional emergency responders performed lifesaving measures before taking him to a hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
The drowning remains under investigation.
In a separate incident, an unconscious boy was pulled from a pond in Woodbury on Monday. Officials have not said if he survived.
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