MERRYVILLE, La. (AP) — The swift Sabine River has drowned three men and the juvenile male they tried to rescue, the Beauregard Parish Sheriff’s Office said.
Search crews found three bodies on Sunday in the river near Merryville, KPLC-TV reported.
Deputies went to a popular boat launch late Friday after a caller reported people in distress.
It's a beautiful but dangerous swimming spot, Sheriff Mark Herford said.
"Where it might be ankle deep yesterday, it might be 20 feet deep today. And the current is extremely strong so it doesn’t take much for somebody to get in trouble pretty quickly,” Herford said.
The sheriff’s office has not released the victims’ names and their relationships were unclear Sunday, The American Press reported.
In 2016, a father drowned trying to save his two sons from the river near Merryville.
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