A 12-year-old sixth-grade boy from New York died earlier this week during a field trip near the Lehigh River in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, according to local officials.
The Carbon County Coroner’s Office said the young boy fell into the Lehigh River in East Penn Township on Wednesday, WCAU-TV reported.
Superintendent Jeff Nichols sent a letter to parents confirming the boy’s identity as Cesar Albarracin Guncay, a sixth-grade student at the Sag Harbor Union Free School District in Long Island.
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Nichols said that Guncay was the victim of a rafting accident while on a school-sponsored trip to the Poconos.
Members of the local fire department’s diving team pulled him out of the water, but he was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. that night.
An autopsy was set to be conducted on Thursday to determine the ultimate cause of death.
“There are no words to adequately express the depth of this loss,”
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