Mother and daughter, 5, dead after being swept away by Connecticut river

A mother and her five-year-old child died after they were believed to have been swept down a river in Connecticut, state police said on Wednesday.

Kelly Dora, 39, of Norwich, and her daughter, Aralye McKeever, were initially reported “lost” on Tuesday just before 5:30 p.m. ET in the Shetucket River in Sprague, about 40 miles southeast from Hartford, Connecticut State Police said in a news release.