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Body of NY man recovered in apparent drowning incident at Pound Ridge Lake

A New York man is dead after Stamford fire officials recovered his body from a lake. Pound Ridge police say Alejandro Limon-Garcia fell out of his canoe Thursday while installing an irrigation pump

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Jun 26, 2015, 3:08 PM

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Updated 3,230 days ago

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Body of NY man recovered in apparent drowning incident at Pound Ridge Lake
A New York man is dead after Stamford fire officials recovered his body from a lake.
Pound Ridge police say Alejandro Limon-Garcia fell out of his canoe Thursday while installing an irrigation pump system.
Officials say Limon-Garcia then struggled and drowned.
Stamford police and fire officials assisted a dive team to locate and recover the body about an hour later.
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