DURAND TOWNSHIP, Minn. (KFGO) – A 13-year-old girl from the Fargo-Moorhead area is dead after she went into the water after swimming in Lake Julia north of Bemidji Sunday, according to the Beltrami County Sheriff’s Office.
911 dispatch received a call of a girl missing in the water just after 5:00 p.m. Friends of the girl told emergency responders that she had been swimming off a pontoon with a life preserver, but she had come back to the boat and removed the floatation device while she was on the ladder when she went under the water and did not resurface.
Deputies were assisted by other bystander boaters until additional underwater detection resources arrived. The Lakes Area Dive Team also responded to the scene.
Just before 8:00 p.m. the dive team located the girl’s body in 23 feet of water. It was recovered and transported to the Midwest Medical Examiner’s Office for an autopsy.
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