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UPDATE: Dive Crews Find Body of Man Who Went Missing in Orono
JUN 1, 20169:18 AM EDT
CATHERINE PEGRAM
LOCAL NEWS
Dive crews have found the body of a man missing in the Stillwater River in Orono.
Authorities say they located 37-year-old Mohammad T. Jamal, of Massachusetts, Wednesday morning, about 13 to 15 feet off shore.
Jamal last seen about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday when the kayak he was in capsized.
Authorities say his 7-year-old niece who was with him was rescued.
The two were near the Steam Plant parking lot on the University Maine campus when their boat flipped.
Jamal’s wife and the girl’s mother were watching from shore.
When emergency responders arrived, the girl, who was wearing her life jacket, was saved.
Jamal, who was not wearing a flotation device, was last seen going under the water.
“I’d like to take the opportunity to remind people it is so extremely important to wear a life jacket when you are in a watercraft. The life jacket no question saved the little girl’s life. She told the fireman that she could not swim. She simply floated with the life jacket that saved her life. It is so very important that people wear life jackets,” said Sgt. Alan Gillis of the Maine Warden Service.
Jamal’s body will now be taken to the Medical Examiner’s Office in Augusta.
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