Officials: At least 1 man, 3 children drown over Memorial Day weekend
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Georgia officials say at least one adult and three children have drowned over Memorial Day weekend.
Search crews have continued to look for a 56-year-old man who disappeared in Lake Lanier Saturday night.
Authorities say the man was in the water on an inflatable raft, went to go try and retrieve an oar, and vanished under the water.
Crews had been searching the lake using sonar devices on Sunday and Monday but were not able to find the man s body.
In Murray County, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation has been called to investigate the drowning of a 3-year-old at a lake on Monday.
Crews have recovered the body of a teen who drowned in a north Georgia creek on Memorial Day. According to Georgia Department of Natural Resources spokesperson Mark McKinnon, a 15-year-old boy at Dick's Creek was swimming with family when he slipped on a rock and went under. Lumpkin County Fire ultimately recovered the victim a short time later. He was turned over to the county coroner. Authorities haven't identified the teen. Since the.
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