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1 dead in boating accident at Flaming Gorge Reservoir

A boating accident in southwest Wyoming has claimed the life of a Utah man.

Sweetwater County Sheriff Mike Lowell says the accident occurred Sunday on Flaming Gorge Reservoir and involved three men in a small boat.

Sheriff’s deputies and Wyoming Game and Fish Department wardens rescued two of the men and recovered the body of the third man, who is believed to have drowned.

No names were released.

Lowell says adverse weather is believed to have been a factor but no other details were immediately released.

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