A man has been arrested in connection with a deadly boating accident that killed five people on a river in Georgia, authorities said.
Two boats traveling in opposite directions collided Saturday morning on the Wilmington River in coastal Chatham County, officials said.A 45-year-old man from Savannah, Georgia, has been arrested for allegedly boating under the influence, said Mark McKinnon, a spokesperson for the law enforcement division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. One of the two boats was carrying six passengers and the other carried three, McKinnon said.
The other four people involved in the crash suffered minor injuries and were taken to a nearby hospital in Savannah. Read MoreSavannah is roughly a three-and-a-half-hour drive from Atlanta. Authorities were also searching for the sector scan sonar, McKinnon said Saturday, a device that's usually used to navigate vehicles and help avoid obstacles. Two Coast Guard helicopters also helped in the search, McKinnon said.
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