Lake Norman State Park Superintendent Greg Schneider says seven people had hiked to the point of a peninsula.
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– Tragedy strikes on Lake Norman Sunday evening as three people are dead and three others in the hospital after a reported drowning.
Two of the three bodies were pulled from the water late Sunday night.
Authorities were called to State Park Road at about 6 p.m.
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They continued their search for the two other missing swimmers, but their rescue effort changed to a recovery later in the evening. A dive team later found an 11-year-old child and a man. Also killed was a family friend, 62-year-old Alba Ramos, he said. He says he was able to revive that child. One of them – authorities aren’t sure who – slipped and fell into the water while playing on rocks near the lake, or wading in shallow water near the rocks, Schneider said.
