Thousands of people in Connecticut packed an emotional ceremony to mourn a 10-year-old boy who drowned after getting sucked into a drainpipe, the New Haven Register reports.
Ben Callahan was playing with his two brothers Friday when he slipped down an embankment, into a culvert, and was sucked into the 4-foot-wide pipe, per the AP. The pipe discharges into the Branford River.
Police using divers, sonar, and a drone found Ben's body three hours later, about 500 feet from where he disappeared. Branford Police Capt. Geoffrey Morgan says via NBC Connecticut that parents should exercise vigilance after heavy rains. "When [a] waterway swells around rainstorms, remind your children to not get around those pipes," he says.
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