MONTEREY COUNTY, Calif. - The body of a missing 7-year-old girl has been recovered about two days after she and her parents were swept from a beach out into the ocean in Monterey County in an incident that killed the girl’s father.

The girl’s body was found by a diver about 100 yards offshore and about half a mile north of Garrapata State Beach along Highway 1, where she was last seen.

The backstory:

The girl – whose name was not released and who was initially reported to be 5 years old – was pulled from the shoreline by a roughly 15 to 20-foot wave on Friday afternoon, according to the Monterey County Sheriff's Office.

Her father – 39-year-old Yuji Hu of Calgary, Canada – entered the water to try and save her, but both were carried farther out to sea.

The girl's mom then tried to

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