NEOSHO, Mo. (AP) _ The Missouri State Highway Patrol says a 5-year-old boy drowned in a creek in Newton County, becoming the third drowning victim in the creek in two days.
The patrol says Anthony Martinez was in a kayak Saturday night in Shoal Creek when the kayak hit a submerged log and overturned. The boy, who was wearing a life jacket, was pinned beneath the kayak. The accident happened about four miles west of Redings Mill.
The Neosho Daily News reports the boy (http://bit.ly/1SIPrKa ) died Saturday evening at a hospital in Joplin.
The patrol says two men from Neosho died in the creek Friday after one disappeared underwater and the other tried to save him.