An autopsy has been scheduled for two individuals who were pulled from a private pond after a drowning Saturday.
According to the Knox County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to the 26-hundred block of Knox Highway 12 in Altona at around noon for the accident.
The Knox Sheriff’s Department was assisted by the Wataga-Oneida Fire Department, Victoria Fire Department, and Copperas Creek Dive Team in the investigation and recovery.
The Copperas Creek Fire Protection District released that the two individuals had gone missing while fishing from a boat in the pond and, using a portable side scan sonar unit, were able to pull the men from the pond.
The names of the two were not released pending notification of next of kin.
Anyone with information is urged to contact the Knox County Sheriff’s Department.
