The body of a 6-year-old boy has been found after he fell off a boat in Marlborough. The dive squad arrived about 1.45pm and quickly found a body, which has been confirmed as the missing boy. A shopkeeper told Stuff: "It's a terrible thing, a really terrible thing and I really feel for them." It comes less than two weeks after 9-year-old Emily Branje was swept away and died while whitebaiting with extended family at the Hokitika River mouth on September 27. Her body was found days later near the mouth of the Grey River near Cobden on the West Coast.

Source: Otago Daily Times October 08, 2019 05:26 UTC