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More Information Released on Weekend Drownings
More Information Released on Weekend Drownings - Tuesday, June 1, 2010 at 04:16AM EST
Reported by: Eyewitness News
Tuesday June 01 2010
We know more about the two men who died in separate drownings over the holiday weekend.
The Pike County coroner tells Eyewitness News 21-year-old Salvador Salinas-Nemjivar of Union City, New Jersey died Sunday. He drowned while swimming in the Delaware River in Milford Township, Pike County. Crews pulled his body from 14 feet of water hours after he didn't resurface.
And in Lycoming County, 50-year-old Richard Gallo of Avis drowned in the Susquehanna River Saturday. Police say he was swimming in the river at the Susquehanna Campground in Piatt Township. The coroner says Gallo's blood alcohol level was nearly five times the legal limit. | |
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