UPDATE | Body found in Lake Washington
Crews and dive teams to try and find the body of 21-year-old Javed Khan of Seattle, who likely drowned Saturday night.
UPDATED
The Associated Press is reporting the following:
A body found in Lake Washington could be the man who went missing last weekend in the water off Kirkland.
The King County sheriff’s office reports a boater spotted the body Thursday morning about 500 yards off Juanita Beach.
It was turned over to the King County medical examiner’s office for identification.
Twenty-year-old Javed Khan went underwater Saturday near a friend’s boat and didn’t come up. Divers searched for the body but were hampered by water weeds up to 15 feet tall.
KOMO News has detailed the sad story of the young Seattle man who disappeared while swimming in Lake Washington on Saturday. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the Khan family.
KING 5 News is reporting that the search resumed Sunday for a Seattle man presumed drowned in Lake Washington’s Juanita Bay.
Police and divers searched for 21-year-old Javed Khan on Saturday night, where friends saw him go under and never resurface. Khan’s father, Mohammed Feroz Khan, told KING 5 his son was observing this first day of Ramadan, Islam’s holy month of self-purification.
“He got up with me in the morning, we both ate together, after prayer we go to bed. After daytime he got up, said he was going out, he’d be back, and he had a little backpack and he walked off, that’s all I’ve seen of him,” said Mohammed.
Kirkland Fire Dept. and other agencies search for a man missing in Lake Washington. They shared that final meal and now his father wonders if not eating or drinking all day made his son too weak to survive in the water.
“It makes you a little fatigued, no water, when you’re fasting you don’t drink any water or food, no nothing, from sundown to sunset,” said Mohammed.
His father says Javed is an engineering student at Lake Washington Technical College. His mother and sister are currently in Australia on vacation.
The video of the KING5 news story is available here.
Posted by Rob Butcher on Thursday, August 27, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Filed under Headlines · Tagged with Accident, Juanita
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Our family is very sorry for your loss.
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Me ,My Wife and my kids Zynal & Zyaim send our condolesenece to The Khan Family . We love Javed. He Was A Wonderful Kid. Always will Be in Our Hearts. God Bless the Family.
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We all feel your loss for this lovely young man. Please know your family is in the thoughts and prayers of more people than you know.
Blessings on you all.
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Our home is immediately adjacent to place where Javed was lost, you are welcome to visit as a part of the memorial service or to use our dock for a quiet place for reflection. Your family is in our prayers.
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I’m often on the boats in Juanita, I’ve very sorry for your loss!
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