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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Namita Singh

18 rescued from breakaway ice sheet on Lake Erie

USCG Great Lakes

The USCoast Guard rescued 18 people on Sunday afternoon after they were separated from land near Catawba Island as a sheet of floating ice broke away trapping them in Lake Erie in northwest Ohio.

According to the US Coast guard, the ice floe broke just after 12pm, when individuals were snowmobiling and riding ATVs.

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