LONDON, Ohio (WOIO) – Incredible new video shows Columbus-area police rescuing a child from a creek.

Two London police officers on patrol on Tuesday spotted a boy walking alone in the dark.

Officers lost sight of the child before making sure everything was okay.

Later, they received a call that an autistic child was missing.

While they were searching the area on foot, they saw the child in the stream and took him out.

The child was taken to a local hospital to be checked out and is expected to be OK, according to police.

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