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US ‘hero’ teen saves three girls and police officer after car plunges into river

Corion Evans, 16, said: ‘I was just like, they need to get out of the water.’
Corion Evans, 16, said: ‘I was just like, they need to get out of the water.’ Photograph: WLBT

A teenager in Mississippi has been praised as a hero for saving the lives of three girls – and a responding police officer – after a car plunged into a river near Pascagoula in the southern US state.

Corion Evans, 16, told local TV station WLOX that he saw the car with three teenage girls inside enter the river after it accidentally drove off the end of a boat launch.

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