{"id":662573,"date":"2026-05-11T16:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/662573\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T16:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:28:11","slug":"2-year-old-dies-after-being-pulled-from-ottawa-river-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/662573\/","title":{"rendered":"2-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.<\/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>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insauga.com\/editorial-guidelines\" class=\"editorial-guidelines-link d-block mb-4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n            INsauga&#8217;s Editorial Standards and Policies        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\tWIN A $100 GIFT CARD<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to INsauga\u2019s daily email newsletter for a chance to win a $100 Amazon gift card.<\/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":662574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-662573","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\/662573","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=662573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}