HANLONTOWN, Iowa (AP) - Authorities in north-central Iowa continued to search Saturday for a man who fell out of a fishing boat on the Winnebago River near Hanlontown.
Emergency responders were called around 1:20 p.m. Friday to the river for reports that a man had fallen into the water and not resurfaced, the Globe Gazette reported.
Worth County Sheriff Dan Fank said it appeared the boat hit some cables, spinning the boat and knocking the man into the water. A second man in the boat was not injured.
Fank said the stretch of river the men were fishing is a popular spot for recreational boating and
Officials were unsure where the cables were located or what they were attached to, but said the scene was still being investigated. Hanlontown is about 125 miles (201.1 kilometers) north of Des Moines.
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