Tradegy news: Bismarck boy died with grandfather in kayaking terrible accident with three shark and his mother crying out for help but one was there read more……

A 12-year-old Bismarck boy was one of two people who died while kayaking in southeastern North Dakota.

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The Ransom County Sheriff’s Office identified the two as Anton Schaffner, 69, of Zeeland, and Sterling Schaffner, of Bismarck. Sterling was the grandson of Anton, according to an obituary posted by Eastgate and Parkway Funeral & Cremation Services.

 

Their bodies were recovered from the Sheyenne River at Fort Ransom last Sunday and Monday. The two kayakers had entered the river north of Fort Ransom and were expected to join the rest of their family at a landing but never appeared, and their kayaks were found under the Fort Ransom Dam, authorities said at the

time.