ELY, Minn. (AP) - Sheriff’s officials say a teenager who drowned in a northern Minnesota lake was a foreign exchange student from Egypt.
Eighteen-year-old Ammar Abo El-Nagoh was a student at Oberlin College in Ohio.
Witnesses told investigators that the teen was wearing a life jacket when he swam from shore to a floating dock and back on Twin Lakes near Ely Tuesday evening. Authorities say he decided to try again without the life jacket, but went under.
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His body was recovered about 30 minutes later.
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