New York State Police have identified the man who died while canoeing on Lincoln Pond in Elizabethtown last month.Top video: See previous coverageInvestigators said Ran Rai, 30, of Syracuse, was paddling on Lincoln Pond in a canoe with one other person while a third person led the group in a kayak. Both Rai and the person he was in the canoe with went into the water when the vessel overturned.The person in the kayak tried to pull Rai out of the water, but both men fell into the pond in the process, police said.The kayaker was able to swim to shore, and the third member of the group was rescued from the water. Rai went under and could not be found. His body was later pulled from the water by divers from the North Queensbury Volunteer Fire Company and the Horicon Volunteer Fire Department.Rai’s cause of death was determined to be asphyxia due to drowning and the manner of his death was ruled an accident.Both survivors were taken to a nearby hospital and were treated for hypothermia.
ELIZABETHTOWN, N.Y. —
New York State Police have identified the man who died while canoeing on Lincoln Pond in Elizabethtown last month.
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Investigators said Ran Rai, 30, of Syracuse, was paddling on Lincoln Pond in a canoe with one other person while a third person led the group in a kayak. Both Rai and the person he was in the canoe with went into the water when the vessel overturned.
The person in the kayak tried to pull Rai out of the water, but both men fell into the pond in the process, police said.
The kayaker was able to swim to shore, and the third member of the group was rescued from the water. Rai went under and could not be found. His body was later pulled from the water by divers from the North Queensbury Volunteer Fire Company and the Horicon Volunteer Fire Department.
Rai’s cause of death was determined to be asphyxia due to drowning and the manner of his death was ruled an accident.
Both survivors were taken to a nearby hospital and were treated for hypothermia.