YORK, Maine -- Three people were swept into the ocean as they watched storm-tossed seas along southern Maine's rocky coast Sunday and at least two of them were presumed drowned, authorities said.
A New Hampshire man and his daughter were washed into the ocean as they stood on rocks near the Cliff House Motel in York about two hours after an 11-year-old boy was swept away in Ogunquit, a few miles north, officials said.
Police in York said Terry Hundley, 41, and his daughter, Marisol, 11, of Durham, N.H., were presumed drowned.
In Ogunquit, a search was also called off at sunset but officials declined to rule the incident a drowning and were not releasing the boy's name.
Relatives of the Hundleys were staying at the Cliff House Motel when the accident happened in York, police said.
'The family was down here at the Cliff House, out standing by the rocks. A wave came in and swept the girl and her father into the ocean,' said York Police Sgt. Gary Finlay.
A buoy was thrown into the ocean immediately after the Hundleys were swept into the water, but witnesses said waves were so rough the pair disappeared.
Officials planned to resume the search at 9 a.m. Monday.
'The people are probably going to be found dead,' Finlay said.
The Coast Guard, using a cutter and a helicopter, scoured the coastline all day. Nearly 100 police and fire workers from both towns and Wells as well as marine patrol and warden service personnel joined in the search for the three missing people.
But when the separate searches were called off at sunset, none of the victims was found, Finlay said.
'We've had the Coast Guard with a helicopter and a cutter offshore all day, and we've done an extensive land search of the shoreline more than once,' he said.
A dispatcher for the Ogunquit police said the 11-year-old boy had been playing with other children on rocks near Perkins Cove when he was washed into the ocean just before 10 a.m.
Strong waves pounded the coast all weekend following a storm Saturday, said Dan Morris, a marine safety patrol officer.
'You've got a 6-foot sea swell, which has a tremendous amount of force because it is an ocean swell versus a wind-blown chop,' said Morris.
