{"id":658711,"date":"2026-05-09T18:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T18:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/658711\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T18:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T18:45:12","slug":"two-year-old-dies-after-being-pulled-from-ottawa-river-police-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/658711\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-year-old dies after being pulled from Ottawa River: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ottawa police say they\u2019re investigating the \u201cheartbreaking\u201d death of a two-year-old child who was found in the Ottawa River on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Police say they responded to reports of a missing child in the area of the Kichi Zibi Mikan Parkway, which runs alongside the river.<\/p>\n<p>They launched a coordinated search and police say an air support team spotted the child in the Ottawa River shortly after the initial call.<\/p>\n<p>Police say first responders immediately brought the child to shore and began lifesaving efforts but the toddler died after being taken to hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police say their hearts are with the child\u2019s family and loved ones, and support services have been made available to them.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the force\u2019s homicide unit and sexual assault and child abuse unit are investigating, as is standard practice following the death of a young child.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 9, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Ottawa as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=ottawa.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778352312_74_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ottawa police say they\u2019re investigating the \u201cheartbreaking\u201d death of a two-year-old child who was found in the Ottawa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-658711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}