GEORGETOWN, S.C., Feb. 19 (UPI) -- A search is underway for a 17-year-old boy who missing in a boating accident off the coast of South Carolina's Sandy Island, an official said Thursday.
A police official said the unidentified teenager was one of six family members who were on a 14-foot fiberglass boat that sank Wednesday night, killing a mother and her daughter, The Sun News newspaper in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Sheriff Lane Cribb of the Georgetown County Sheriff's Office said none of the boat's passengers appeared to have been wearing life jackets at the time of the Waccamaw River accident.
Cribb said in addition to the teenager's disappearance and the two deaths, an unidentified woman and a 9-month-old baby were hospitalized following the accident. The injured parties' conditions weren't reported.
Cribb told The Sun News the details of Wednesday's fatal accident made the incident particularly disturbing compared with other deadly boating accidents.
"All of them are bad. But lately, this is the most tragic we've had because of death and a family lost," the police official said.
