Search ongoing for 12-year-old who fell into a creek in QC

The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) is continuing on Tuesday its search and retrieval operations for a 12-year-old boy reported missing after swimming in a creek in Quezon City.

The boy has been identified as Prince Kian Flores, according to a report by James Agustin on GMA News' Unang Balita.

2PM kahapon nang maligo sa creek ang biktima kasama ang iba pang bata. Nang lumakas daw ang ulan ay biglang tinangay ng agos ang biktima habang nakaligtas ang kanyang mga kasamahan. @gmanews pic.twitter.com/kAOxDdbYI5

— James Agustin (@_jamesJA) August 15, 2022

Flores went swimming with friends in a creek in Barangay Pinyahan past 2 p.m. on Monday.

However, when heavy rains fell, the children headed to the riverbank.

One of them looked back and saw Flores who seemed to have an epileptic seizure, then he was gone, according to his grandmother.

PCG personnel combed through the creek in Barangay Pinyahan but found no trace of Flores.

They also searched the creek path all the way to Mother Ignacia Avenue and Quezon Avenue, but still did not find the boy.

Search operations were halted at midnight and resumed on Tuesday morning.

The PCG said searching was difficult because of the amount of garbage in the creek.

Flores' grandmother however is still hoping her grandson will be found soon. —KG, GMA News