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One dead after vehicle breaks through Mille Lacs

Jan 13, 2024 05:01AM ● By Editor
Image:  The scene of a vehicle falling through the ice on Mille Lacs Lake on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024. Credit: Mille Lacs County Sheriff

From WDIO - January 13, 2024

Authorities say a man is dead after his truck went through the ice late Friday morning on Mille Lacs Lake.

According to the Mille Lacs County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were sent to the Flagship Inn on Whistle Road around 10:52 a.m.

The caller told dispatchers the body of a man wearing a flotation device was in the water near that area, and a truck had fallen through the ice, which measured as being six inches thick.

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