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UPDATE: One dead after boating accident in Union County

Rescue crews were called to Silo Lane in Union Township just before 8 p.m. Saturday night.
Credit: WNEP

UNION COUNTY, Pa. — A boating accident has turned deadly in Union County.

Rescue crews were called to Silo Lane in Union Township just before 8 p.m. Saturday night after receiving reports of a boat capsizing in the Susquehanna River and two people in the water.

A man was found shortly after crews arrived. 

Dive teams searched the water for about an hour and found a woman, later identified as 37-year-old Melissa Cummings, in the water.

She was taken to Evangelical Community Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Her death is considered accidental.

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