Body pulled from Merced River identified

MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) -- The assemblage of the idiosyncratic who was pulled from the Merced River has been identified arsenic Jagdeep Singh Riar.

Just aft 4:15 p.m. Sunday, The Merced County Sheriff's Office Water Rescue and Recovery Team responded to the Merced River, astir a mile downstream of Hagaman Park.

There, they recovered an unresponsive idiosyncratic that matched the statement of the idiosyncratic that went missing connected Saturday, May 11.

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Riar was with a person erstwhile investigators accidental helium asked to usage someone's kayak to instrumentality photos. Officials accidental that's however helium ended up successful the water.

Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke closed some the Merced River and the San Joaquin River past week due to the fact that the high, acold h2o was creating unsafe conditions.