NEVER RECEIVED AN INCIDENT REPORT ON THIS FATALITY.....BUT ACCORDING TO NEWSPAPER ARTICLE IN CLARION LEDGER IT STATED....A BENTONIA MAN DROWNED ON SUN THE 9TH WHILE FISHING DID NOT KNOW HOW TO SWIM.  subject 1, 37, WAS FISHING WITH ANOTHER MAN IN A SMALL BODY OF WATER IN BENTONIA.   YAZOO CORONER SAID THE BOAT FLIPPED OVER AND  TOSSED BOTH MEN INTO THE WATER.   THE MAN WITH subject 1 WAS ABLE TO GET BACK IN THE BOAT BUT subject 1 NEVER SURFACED.  THE MAN WAS ABLE TO PADDLE BACK TO LAND AND CALL FOR HELP.  MEMBERS OF THE BENTONIA VFD WERE ABLE TO DIVE IN AND PULL subject 1 BODY OUT OF THE WATER.......
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