When the dinghy capsized in the River Swale, the boy grasped hold of a branch in the fast-flowing water.
"The government promised us a bridge across the river, " said one boy.
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The father of the Toms River, New Jersey, boy -- who died earlier this week after being shot by his young playmate -- said he and his wife decided to donate Brandon's organs, in hopes some good will come of their tragedy.
"I've fished the River Waveney since I was a boy, " said Mr Casto.
We stopped alongside the Sonobe River, where Miyamoto, as a boy, had caught fish with his hands, and I descended the bank and stared at the riffles for a while until I realized, with a start, that there were six or seven giant carp in a pool right by my feet.
The father of a boy whose body was recovered from the River Avon between Bristol and Bath has visited the scene.
In 1995 a 14-year-old boy found a leopard skull in a river in Bodmin perhaps lending weight to the beast's existence and its demise.
His father died in September 2004, and Manglik attended the funeral, watching his dad's ashes sink into the same stretch of river where the elder Manglik had swum as a boy.
Also in Chapeltown, a 14-year-old boy had to be pulled from a swollen river in Chapeltown area of Sheffield.
The search for a teenage boy who jumped from a ferry into a river on New Year's Eve has been called off.
When a 14 year old boy found a big cat skull in a river in Bodmin Moor, it seemed certain to be proof the "Beast" was real.
He's now 53, but he recalls illegally swimming in the river and bicycling its banks as a 10-year-old boy with other youths -- until they discovered how filthy the water was, he said.
According to Sioux Falls police Chief Doug Barthel, the boy had gone into the several-feet-high foam often generated there by the river, and perhaps into the water itself.
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