BEATTYVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A mother and child remain missing hours after they were swept into a flooded creek in eastern Kentucky.
Kentucky State Police Trooper Robert Purdy said the woman and child were stranded in their vehicle in high water around 9:30 a.m. Friday on a rural highway in Lee County, near the Estill County line.
Local authorities could see them in the vehicle and attempted a water rescue, Purdy said. But around 11:30 a.m., the rushing water swept them away and rescue workers lost sight of them.
Buddy Rogers, spokesman for the Kentucky Division of Emergency Management, said Lee County authorities requested a state police helicopter to help try to find them, but the weather was too bad for an aerial search.
The Lexington Fire Department sent a swift-water recovery team to assist with the search. They have not yet been found.
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