By Associated Press - Sunday, September 20, 2020

NEW YORK (AP) - New York Police Department divers resumed their search Sunday for a 5-year-old boy who climbed a tree and fell into the Harlem River.

The boy was was with his family on Randall’s Island for his brother’s soccer practice when he fell into the water at about 2:30 p.m. Saturday, police said.

Adults who were at the soccer practice jumped in the water after the boy but could not reach him. “The last thing I saw was a little arm sticking out,” Luis Ramos, who was coaching the soccer practice, told WABC-TV.

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The search for the boy was suspended Saturday night but resumed Sunday morning.

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