Father drowns trying to save 2 children in Lake Michigan
Posted July 31, 2020 7:00 am
ST. JOSEPH, Mich. (AP) - A 44-year-old Indiana man has drowned in Lake Michigan while trying to save his two children.
Four people were seen struggling in the lake about 8 p.m. Thursday at Lions Park Beach in southwestern Michigan's St. Joseph, police said in a release.
The man's two children, ages 17 and 12, were swept away by an undertow. They were rescued by a St. Joseph reserve officer. Their father was pulled from the water, but later was pronounced dead at a hospital.
He was from Lakeville, Indiana, south of South Bend.
A man on a surfboard was able to rescue the other two people.
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