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Body recovered at Kansas State Park

PAOLA, Kan. (AP) — Crews have recovered the body of a drowning victim from a lake at a state park in eastern Kansas.

The Miami County Sheriff’s Office told The Kansas City Star that the victim’s body was found late Sunday from the lake at Hillsdale State Park in Miami County. The victim was identified as 20-year-old Osvaldo Nievez-Quesada of Kansas City, Kansas.

Sheriff’s deputies were called Sunday night to the Jayhawk swimming beach on a reported drowning. Witnesses said a man was in a designated swimming area when he disappeared under the water.

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