OTTUMWA, Iowa [KCCI] — Emergency responders in Ottumwa continued to search the Des Moines River and embankments, Monday, for swimmer who went missing Sunday. KCCI says the Ottumwa Police Department received a report around 4:30 p.m. Sunday about a missing man who had last been seen swimming in the river. The man – whose name was not released – had been in the river earlier in the day with a group of people near the Highway 34 overpass bridge near to Ottumwa’s JBS plant.

A search began Sunday night, and personnel from the Wapello County Sheriff’s Office, the Ottumwa Fire Department, the Eldon Fire Department and the Iowa DNR continue to search the river and embankments.