At least 3 killed, 1 injured after boat overturns in Pennsylvania river
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Three men died and another was injured after a boat ran aground and overturned on the Allegheny River, authorities said Saturday.
Officials in Clarion County, Pennsylvania, said the 21-foot boat apparently ran onto the riverbank at about 1:30 a.m. Saturday below Phillipston.
Coroner Terry Shaffer said the boat "ran up on the bank and flipped a couple of times and turned upside down." Emergency officials were called at about 6:30 a.m. Saturday when someone reported a boat upside down in the river, authorities said.
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Waterways conservation officer Gregory Pochron, of the Fish and Boat Commission, said three men were found dead in the boat. Their names, ages and hometowns weren't immediately released.
A man in his 70s found pinned underneath the boat was reported to be conscious and alert when he was taken to a hospital in Pittsburgh.
"He was in the front of the boat where there was an air pocket, apparently. The others were underwater," Shaffer told the Associated Press.
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Autopsies on the victims were planned for Monday at the Erie County coroner's office, he said.
Pochron said the accident is under investigation.