SHISHMAREF, Alaska (AP) - A 20-year-old northwest Alaska village resident has died in a snowmobile crash.
Alaska State Troopers say Jay Weyiouanna (wee-oh-WAN’-ah) of Shishmaref (SHISH’-mar-ef) died Sunday.
Witnesses tell troopers they saw Weyiouanna drive into a ditch and crash in the village 126 miles north of Nome.
He was alone on the machine.
The state medical examiner has scheduled an autopsy in Anchorage.
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