By rssfeeds-admin A man was killed in St. Louis County Friday afternoon, believed to have been accidentally electrocuted by a boat that was docked on a lake.
According to the St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office, the 39-year-old man had been swimming on Lake Vermilion just before 4:47 p.m. when he grabbed the docked boat. Witnesses who saw the incident said the man appeared to receive an electrical shock and went unconscious.
While life-saving measures were attempted, the man could not be revived and was declared dead.
The sheriff’s office said the boat’s electrical system had been plugged into a nearby boathouse at the time of the incident.
The post Man killed in an apparent electrocution from a docked boat while swimming on Lake Vermilion first appeared on KSTP.com 5 Eyewitness News.
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