Teenage girl dead, 3 others hospitalized after rescue at Georgia park

BIBB COUNTY, Ga. — Three relations stepped right into a river at a Georgia park to benefit from the water, now a 17-year-old is useless, two different relations are within the hospital, and a rescuer is recovering.

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Alex Mendoza, 28, Laura Yesseria, 23, and Betty Gisselle Rivera, 17, had been within the Ocmulgee River in Frank Amerson Park once they went beneath the water, based on the Bibb County Sheriff’s Workplace.

Individuals visiting the park heard requires assist and jumped within the water.

Residents pulled Mendoza and Yesseria from the water, based on investigators.

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Rivera was discovered additional down the river. Macon-Bibb County firefighters helped one of many rescuers pull Rivera from the river. Emergency employees carried out CPR however she didn’t survive.

Mendoza and Yesseria had been taken to the hospital the place they had been steady.

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One of many males who jumped within the water to assist was additionally hospitalized and steady.

The Bibb County Sheriff’s Workplace says the incident is beneath investigation and is reminding everybody to put on life jackets whereas on the river.

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