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Woman dies after falling from raft

Posted at 5:18 AM, May 23, 2016
and last updated 2016-05-23 08:02:28-04

Fremont County authorities say a woman has died in a rafting accident on the Arkansas River.

Sheriff's Sgt. Megan Richards says the victim, a woman in her 40s who has not yet been identified, died Sunday after falling out of the raft west of Canon City. She had been on a trip with a commercial rafting company at the time of the incident.

Her cause of death and other details about the incident have not yet been released.