GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) - Authorities say a 24-year-old Oregon man drowned in the Rogue River.
Josephine County Search and Rescue coordinator Cory Krauss says Juan Carlos Hernandez-Nunez and a cousin swam across the river a few hundred feet below Rainie Falls. The cousin made it back across Saturday, but Hernandez-Nunez disappeared shortly after re-entering the water.
Friends and bystanders found the Medford man unconscious and their efforts to revive him failed.
The Grants Pass Daily Courier reports (https://is.gd/EawUej ) a rescue crew arrived about 90 minutes after 9-1-1 was called -too late to help.
Krauss says the cold water and powerful current make swimming in the Rogue very risky at this time of year.
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Information from: Daily Courier, https://www.thedailycourier.com
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