Child Drowns At Lake Thompson

police lights  DE SMET, S.D. (AP) – Authorities say a 5-year-old girl has drowned in a lake in eastern South Dakota.

The Kingsbury County sheriff’s office says 5-year-old Presley Nielsen, of Hartford, died Saturday night after falling off a dock into Lake Thompson. She was at the lake with her family for a family reunion.

Elsewhere in the state, authorities reported two other people drowned Saturday in separate incidents in Rapid City and in the Missouri River in southeastern South Dakota.