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Authorities search for missing swimmers in Potomac

 

CABIN JOHN, Md. (AP) — Montgomery County fire department officials say they are searching for two men who had been swimming in the Potomac River.

Department spokesman Capt. Oscar Garcia says authorities responded to a 4:40 p.m. call from a hiker who said she saw people in the river near Purple Horse Beach yelling for help. Montgomery and Fairfax county water rescue units as well as a park police helicopter responded to the area of the 9500 block of Macarthur Boulevard.

Garcia says other witnesses reported seeing at least six swimmers in the...

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