Rescuers search for last 2 kids thrown from bridge
Associated Press
Issue date: 1/15/08 Section: News
BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. (AP) - The search resumed Monday for two young children allegedly thrown from a bridge by their father with two siblings whose bodies were found over the weekend.
The bodies of 3-year-old Ryan Phan and 4-month-old Danny Luong were discovered a few miles west of the 80-foot-tall coastal bridge, where authorities said the father tossed all four children Jan. 7 after a fight with his wife.
Rescuers Monday searched the waters for 2-year-old Hannah Luong and Lindsey Luong, 1, not far from Bayou La Batre, where the family lived.
The search zone was extended to waters off the shore of Pascagoula, Miss., after Ryan's body was spotted Sunday near shore in Bayou La Fourche Bay, about three miles west of where the 4-month-old was found by a duck hunter Saturday, Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran said.
Searchers used helicopters and airplanes as well as airboats along the shallow, marshy shoreline over the weekend.
Some volunteers walked hand-in-hand in a slow stroll, overturning logs and debris.
Cochran said the last two bodies could be in nearby marshes or taken by the current closer to the Alabama-Mississippi line.
The search began Jan. 8 after prosecutors said the father, Lam Luong, broke down and confessed to driving the children to the two-lane bridge and throwing them into the waters below after a fight with his wife, 23-year-old Kieu Phan.
The bodies of 3-year-old Ryan Phan and 4-month-old Danny Luong were discovered a few miles west of the 80-foot-tall coastal bridge, where authorities said the father tossed all four children Jan. 7 after a fight with his wife.
Rescuers Monday searched the waters for 2-year-old Hannah Luong and Lindsey Luong, 1, not far from Bayou La Batre, where the family lived.
The search zone was extended to waters off the shore of Pascagoula, Miss., after Ryan's body was spotted Sunday near shore in Bayou La Fourche Bay, about three miles west of where the 4-month-old was found by a duck hunter Saturday, Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran said.
Searchers used helicopters and airplanes as well as airboats along the shallow, marshy shoreline over the weekend.
Some volunteers walked hand-in-hand in a slow stroll, overturning logs and debris.
Cochran said the last two bodies could be in nearby marshes or taken by the current closer to the Alabama-Mississippi line.
The search began Jan. 8 after prosecutors said the father, Lam Luong, broke down and confessed to driving the children to the two-lane bridge and throwing them into the waters below after a fight with his wife, 23-year-old Kieu Phan.
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