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A Pike County father is dead after trying to rescue his son from an ice-covered pond.
Pike County sheriff's deputies say around 5pm Monday night they got a call of two people submerged in a frozen pond near Perry, Illinois.
After arriving, crews tried to rescue 44-year-old Roderick Webel of rural Perry.
He went under water after rescuing his son from the ice-covered pond along with a hired hand who was also trying to rescue Webel's son.
Webel was pulled from the water at about 5:35 p.m. He was later pronounced dead at Illini Community Hospital in Pittsfield.
