Boy dies after being pulled from northern Arkansas lake

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(AP) – Authorities say a 20-month-old boy who was found
in a lake in northern Arkansas has died.Sharp County Sheriff’s Sgt. Aaron Presser said Monday that the sheriff’s
office was notified that the boy died Sunday night at a Little Rock hospital.

Presser says the boy was reported missing Sunday morning from the family’s
lake house in Cherokee Village and was later found in Lake Sequoyah. He
says a deputy found the boy in the lake near a dock.

According to Presser the deputy was able to revive the boy, who was then taken to a hospital in Highland before being flown to a hospital in Little Rock.

The child’s name and cause of death has not been released.

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