By Associated Press - Monday, August 20, 2018

BACKUS, Minn. (AP) - A Wisconsin woman died after being pulled unconscious from a central Minnesota lake where she was swimming.

The Cass County Sheriff’s Office says the 37-year-old woman from Sheboygan, Wisconsin, was found not breathing in Ponto Lake on Saturday afternoon. She was taken to a St. Cloud hospital, where she died on Sunday.

An autopsy is planned. Her name wasn’t immediately released.

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