The body of a 7-year-old girl who went missing along the Big Sur coast after a wave pulled her and her family into the ocean on Friday has been recovered, the Monterey County Sheriff's Office said on Sunday.

The girl was pulled into the ocean at Garrapata State Beach, north of Rocky Point Restaurant, around 1 p.m. by a wave that was possibly 15 to 20 feet high, the sheriff's office said.

Her father — later identified as 39-year-old Yuji Hu, of Calgary, Alberta, Canada — went into the water to try and rescue her, but the sheriff's office said both were swept into the ocean. The child's mother then tried to reach out to them while the man held onto their daughter, but she was swept into the water as well.

She ultimately made it back to shore on her own, and an off-duty State Parks Pea

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