Officials say a woman is dead and her five-year-old son is in critical condition after they fell into the gorge near the Cave of the Winds complex in Niagara Falls, New York.
“We don’t believe it was an accident,” Captain Chris Rola of the New York State Park Police told reporters at the edge of the Niagara Gorge earlier this week.
When officers arrived on scene, Rola said, they used the elevator within the Cave of the Winds to get to the gorge’s base. Although his injuries were critical, the boy was in stable enough condition that emergency crews were able to transport him back up the elevator to an awaiting air ambulance that transferred him to John R. Oishei Children's Hospital in downtown Buffalo, Rola said.
Officials said the boy has since undergone surgery in hospital for a head injury, where he remains in critical condition.
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