9.45pm: Mount Isa Police Station’s officer in charge, Senior Sergeant Renee Hanrahan, said the boy is still missing.
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The search continues on Sunday morning.
5.31pm: Mount Isa Police District Superintendent Kev Guteridge confirms that the search for the boy continues.
He texts: “Nothing to update. Man and six-year old in hospital in a serious but stable condition.
“Nine-year-old remains missing. Search continuing.”
Superintendent Guteridge thanked Mount Isa residents for their concerns and willingness to do whatever they could to assist.
“Great communities are always concerned and ready to help. Beauty of Mount Isa.
“Everything possible is being done.”
4.50pm: The Mount Isa community shares condolences, well wishes and prayers for the family and for attending emergency services.
At 4.45pm Mount Isa resident Mark Reading delivers sandwiches and cartons of water to the Mount Isa Police Station.
The food and water was for emergency services at Lake Moondarra. Mr Reading said that in these circumstances people forget to eat and drink, which was necessary on such a hot day.
Two women at Coles donated a $20 voucher to the cause.
His wife Leonie Reading, who requested support on social media earlier, said; “it’s not much at all.
“It’s about the family at the moment. Just praying for a good outcome.
“We do it because we have been in receipt of so much good will from the community.”
At about the same time, QAS paramedic Rob Shepherd leaves the station. Having finished his shift, the paramedic was offering for the QAS to provide additional managerial support to the police, if they needed it.
3.45pm: QPS issued a press release earlier:
Mount Isa Police are co-ordinating a search and rescue operation at Lake Moondarra to locate a nine-year-old boy reported missing following a jet-ski crash this morning.
Initial information indicates around 11am a 34-year-old man and a six-year-old boy were riding a jet-ski at Lake Moondarra when it crashed into the edge of the lake, striking the nine-year-old boy.
The man and the six-year-old boy both sustained injuries and were transported to hospital.
The nine-year-old boy has not been sighted since the incident.
A search of the area has commenced using a helicopter, ground and swift water rescue crews.
Police are investigating the cause of the crash.
2.32pm: A Mount Isa Police Station officer said higher ranking officers are at the junction and are preparing a media statement.
Mount Isa Mayor Joyce McCulloch, currently in Melbourne, will seek information from Mount Isa Police District Superintendent Kev Guteridge before making comment.
1:30pm: A nine-year-old boy is missing after a jet ski collided into the bank at the junction at Lake Moondarra on Saturday morning.
A six-year-old boy on the back of the jet ski has fractured his arm.
A 35-year-old man has head injuries.
Queensland Ambulance Service North West operations centre supervisor David Beil said the 35-year-old and the six-year-old were transported to the Mount Isa Hospital in a stable condition at around 12.30pm.
Mr Beil said emergency services were on their way to find the missing boy.
QAS were called to the jet ski crash at about 10.53am, he said.
A LifeFlight Rescue helicopter left the junction at around 12.30pm, believed to be transporting the 35-year-old man.
Emergency services remained at the scene including police, QAS, the Queensland Fire and Emergency Services, the State Emergency Service.
Police officers were surveying the area at the shore. At around 12.45pm a police vehicle was seen travelling to the scene towing a boat.
*QAS first told the NWS that a man had gone missing. The error has been corrected:
