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Goergia girl dies after being pulled from Florida waters

As reported by Miamiherald.com, a Georgia girl has died after being pulled from the waters off the Florida Panhandle. The Bay County Sheriff’s Office says 13-year-old Jade McCallister was visiting Panama City Beach with a group from her church in Morganton, Georgia. Read Article

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Bulgaria: Romanian tourist drowns near Sunny Beach resort

According to focus-fen.com a 35-year-old Romanian tourist has drowned to death in the Bulgarian Sunny Beach resort, the District Interior Ministry Directorate-Burgas announced. The signal about the incident was filed to the police at around 5:37 p.m. on Saturday. The identity of the tourist has been ascertain – a Romanian citizen with initials P.T., aged […]

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Pakistan: Vacationing school teacher drowns in northern lake

According to thenews.com.pk, a tourist drowned in Saiful Muluk Lake on Thursday. Mufti Rasheed, stated to be a schoolteacher from Charsadda, was on a trip to Kaghan Valley along with his friends. He reportedly drowned in the lake early in the day. His boy was fished out of the lake and taken to the civil […]

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Two Filipina tourists drown while fishing in California

According to abs-cbnnews.com, Leanne Binyas-Semana, 30 and Aylene Semana, 28, residents of Milpitas were fishing with their husbands at Bonny Doon beach near Santa Cruz when they got caught in the high surf and drowned. State parks officials said the husbands, who are brothers, jumped into the ocean to save their wives, but were pushed […]

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Turkey: Fifteen people drown in separate incidents near seaside resorts

As the summer brings with it unbearable heat, many people resort to swimming in seas, rivers and reservoirs to cool off. However, the fun often ends in tragedy. Fifteen people drowned over the weekend as crowds flocked to shores at the end of a sweltering week. According to media reports, three people drowned in Batman […]

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Hawaii: Tennessee man dies while snorkeling near Na Pali Coast

WATE in Knoxville, Tennessee reports that the Tennessee man who drowned while snorkeling off Kauai’s Na Pali Coast has been identified. Police on Thursday identified the 48-year-old as Manuel Benegas of Brentwood, Tenn. He was part of a charter group that stopped in the area for swimming and snorkeling Wednesday. Read article

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UAE: Chinese man drowns while fishing in restricted area

Gulftoday.ae reports that a Chinese man, QL, 43, died on Thursday morning after he drowned while he was fishing in Al Khor area of Umm Al Quwain, a notified restricted area. A senior police officer said that as soon as the operations room received a tip-off about the incident, police patrols, rescue vehicles and ambulances […]

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Tourist from the West Bank drowns off Israeli coast

Ma’an News reports that a young man from Jenin was found drowned off the coast of Netanya in northern Israel on Friday, police said. Medics could not revive the man, who was in his 20s, said Israeli police spokeswoman Luba al-Samri. Read article

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Tourist drowns at popular swimming spot in northern Australia

Ntnews.com reports that the body of a missing Victorian man has been found in the frigid, pitch-black waters of a popular Kakadu waterfall. Police scuba divers located the missing man’s body in approximately six metres of water. The 42-year-old man disappeared while swimming at Jim Jim Falls which is 30m deep and the average temperature […]

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Turkey: Two British tourists drown, another injured in stabbing

According to travel.aol.co.uk, two British tourists have drowned at different beaches in popular Turkish province Muğla. Paramedics were called to Belcekiz beach in Oludeniz when 55-year-old holidaymaker Anthony Gissing was found floating in the sea without moving, Hurriyet Daily News reports. He was taken to shore before being dispatched to a hospital nearby but could […]

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