POLICE divers found the deceased nine-year-old boy at Lake Moondarra at 6am Sunday.
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A QPS statement supplied an update into the jet ski crash which happened at the junction around 11am on Saturday.
Police are investigating the cause of the crash.
A 34-year-old man and a six-year-old boy were riding the jet ski at the lake when it crashed into the edge of the lake at the junction.
It struck the nine-year-old boy.
The nine-year-old boy was not sighted since and a search using a helicopter, ground and swift water rescue crews were used.
Mount Isa Mayor Joyce McCulloch said the community was affected by the terrible news.
“Mount Isa is a very resilient community but tragedies like this hits it very, very hard.
“Mount Isa is a very good outdoorsy place and it was obviously a very young family wanting to have a lot of fun. And then the tragic circumstances occurred.”
Councillor McCulloch said she was personally affected, as a local with children the same age as those involved in the accident.
“Like I say, the people were going out and having fun, not imagining this would occur, and they have the right to do that in life.”
She praised locals on their numerous offers to support police and emergency services during their search.
“They were inundated with others of help around the accident. That does not surprise me because Mount Isa is such a close knit community.”