Bodies of two South Carolina men recovered from water, coroner says

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Bodies of two South Carolina men recovered from water, coroner says

Two South Carolina men were killed over the weekend and they were recovered from a body of water in the Midlands, the

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said Sunday in a news release.

Coroner David West said the victims were 21-year-old Richland County resident Valentin Ulises Nicolas Quiroz and 43-year-old Sumter resident Lonnie Hancock.

At about 4:10 p.m. Saturday, there was a 911 call about a drowning, West said in the release. A dispatcher was told the drowning happened in the

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, according to the release. That’s behind the Wateree Dam, West said.

When emergency responders got to the river, they learned there were two victims, according to the release.

One

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Saturday night, WIS reported.

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said the second

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, and that the scene has been cleared.

Information about how the men ended up in the water and what they were doing was not available.

Members of the

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helped in the search, and other emergency agencies that responded to the scene included Kershaw County EMS as well as

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No causes of death have been made public by the coroner’s office, but autopsies have been scheduled for Tuesday in Newberry County, West said.

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