Australian media have named the woman as mother-of-two Helena Wright. She was born in Estonia and lived with her husband and family in Compton on the outskirts of Mount Gambier.<\/p>\n
Superintendent Trent Cox said “extremely challenging” conditions meant emergency vessels had not been able to conduct searches on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
“Sadly, today we have not been able to locate the boy, but we will resume the search tomorrow morning,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Today’s search has been confined to land searches, revisiting some of the ground we covered yesterday, but also covering additional ground.<\/p>\n
“We will continue to leave no stone unturned \u2026 but the search has been suspended as of 3.30pm. It became too dangerous to continue.”<\/p>\n
The search is focused on Cape Northumberland, the state’s southernmost point, at Port MacDonnell on the state’s Limestone Coast. <\/p>\n
Survivability experts had told police “it is very, very unlikely that the missing baby has survived to this point”, Supt Cox said.<\/p>\n
Police were alerted to an abandoned car that was left with its engine running near Cape Northumberland about 11.15am on Monday.<\/p>\n
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Cape Northumberland in South Australia. (Source: Public domain. )<\/p>\n
The bodies of the woman from Compton, a small community near Mount Gambier, and her daughter were found in the ocean soon afterwards and retrieved with help from local fishermen. <\/p>\n
SA Police Commissioner Grant Stevens said he had not had direct feedback on how the fishermen were coping.<\/p>\n
“But I’m sure we can all put ourselves in their shoes – it would be heartbreaking and very difficult,” he said.<\/p>\n
Police had spoken to the woman’s husband, who was the father of the children, Mr Stevens said.<\/p>\n
The search was being conducted on the belief the missing boy had fallen from the cliff.<\/p>\n
“Despite the weather today, which is not good, searching is continuing for the infant,” Mr Stevens said.<\/p>\n
“Searching for a small child and recovering a woman and a child from the water will take its toll on people who are involved in that search exercise.”<\/p>\n
Earlier, police said there was “no information to suggest that any other persons are involved in the incident and reports will be prepared for the coroner”.<\/p>\n
SA Premier Peter Malinauskas said there were a lot of unanswered questions, making it difficult to understand exactly what transpired.<\/p>\n
“These types of tragedies are the ones that shock you to the core,” he said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
“If it involves children, that breaks your heart, particularly when we know there is currently a two-month-old baby that is missing, and that’s hard to get your head around.”<\/p>\n
Major Crime detectives and specialist forensic officers are at the scene.<\/p>\n
Local mayor Kylie Boston said such tragedies were ”always difficult for smaller communities”.<\/p>\n
”Everyone’s just a little bit shocked at the moment,” Southern Limestone Coast Council’s Boston told AAP.<\/p>\n
“We’ll let the police do the work they need to do, and everyone will just continue to support everyone.”<\/p>\n
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