Boy, 2 adults missing after being swept away in drainage ditch following severe storms in Milwaukee

A child and two adults are missing after they were swept away in a drainage ditch in Milwaukee following severe thunderstorms that brought heavy rains and damaging winds to a wide swath of the Midwest and parts of the South, authorities said.

Witnesses told police the 11-year-old boy fell about 6:30 p.m. Monday into the ditch, which carries water through a tunnel to the Kinnickinnic River. According to police, two men, ages 34 and 37, entered the water in an attempt to rescue the boy, but all three were swept away.

"In that tunnel, we have no idea what was going on in that tunnel," said Assistant Fire Chief DeWayne Smoots.