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11-year-old boy’s body recovered from pond

Andrei Iurco (Credit: Channel 2 Action News)
Andrei Iurco (Credit: Channel 2 Action News)
By Lauren Foreman and Raisa Habersham
May 19, 2017

An 11-year-old boy’s body was found Friday just a day after he disappeared in a small community pond near his Barrow County home.

Andrei Iurco went under the water and never resurfaced Thursday, Channel 2 Action News reported. He had just finished the fifth grade.

Iurco was one of several students at Holsenbeck Elementary School in Winder who attended their final classes before summer break, according to the news station.

“They got home from school and they ran down to the neighborhood pond and jumped in and had a little bit of fun,” Barrow fire Capt. Scott Dankin told the news station. “And unfortunately the fun turned tragic.”

Iurco was playing with his 9-year-old brother on a paddle boat at the time.

Family told Channel 2 that Iurco knew how to swim.

Crews searched until about  11 p.m. Thursday. The search resumed at 7 a.m. Friday, before becoming a recovery effort before noon.

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