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GLYNN COUNTY, Ga. — A man died an apparent drowning while swimming in the beach area of a Georgia park.
The accident happened Sunday at Massengale Beach off St. Simons Island in Glynn County.
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The Glynn County Fire Rescue says people alerted a lifeguard about a man in distress in the water. The lifeguard pulled the man, who was unconscious, out of the water and began CPR.
Paramedics arrived and took the man to the emergency room at Southeast Georgia Health System’s Brunswick campus.
Doctors pronounced the man dead at the hospital.
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Georgia Department of Natural Resources said he was 33 years old.
His name has not been released.
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