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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Isabel Keane

13-year-old girl drowns trying to save cousin who was swept away by sudden current in West Virginia river

A 13-year-old Pennsylvania girl drowned after getting swept away by a strong rip current while trying to save her cousin as he swam in the Ohio River.

Reese Hanshaw, of Burgettstown, was swimming with some of her relatives Monday around 7 p.m. near the Veterans Memorial Bridge in Weirton, West Virginia, when she got pulled away by a strong current, WPXI-TV reported.

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