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At least three other people have gotten stuck and drowned there over the years.

At least three other people have gotten stuck and drowned there over the years.

A man who was walking on tidal mud flats with friends in an Alaska estuary got stuck up to his waist in the quicksand-like silt and drowned as the tide came in before frantic rescuers could extract him, authorities said.

The 20-year-old man’s body was recovered Monday, and the accident was the latest tragedy at Turnagain Arm, a 48-mile-long glacier-carved estuary that travels southeast from Anchorage, Alaska.

ANCHORAGE — A man who was walking on tidal mud flats with friends in an Alaska estuary got stuck up to his waist in the quicksand-like silt and drowned as

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A man who was walking on tidal mud flats with friends in an Alaska estuary got stuck up to his waist in the quicksand-like si...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A man who was walking on tidal mud flats with friends in an Alaska estuary got stuck up to his waist in the quicksand-like silt and

Zachary Porter, 20, of Lake Bluff, Illinois, got stuck Sunday evening as the tide came in.

A member of Zachary Porters group called 911 when they couldnt get him out, but it was too late, authorities said.

Zachary Porter, a 20-year-old college student, was on a trip to Alaska when he got stuck in quicksand-like silt up to his waist and drowned when the tide came in before his friends could pull him out.