GREENWOOD COUNTY – Law enforcement authorities are investigating a child drowning on Tuesday in Greenwood County.

A seven-year-old girl died after being pulled from the water at the Fall River Bridge just west of Eureka, according to a media release.

Deputies with the sheriff’s department, EMS and Eureka City Rescue responded to a possible drowning at the bridge just before 5p.m.

They saw a man clinging to a log in the river below a low-water dam and were able to locate a child in the water.

Two deputies entered the river and pulled the girl out of the water.

The girl was transported to the Greenwood County Hospital where she was pronounced dead.  Name of the victim has not been released.