By Associated Press - Friday, August 24, 2018

BACKUS, Minn. (AP) - Authorities have released the name of a Wisconsin woman who died in an apparent drowning in a Minnesota lake.

The Cass County Sheriff’s Office says 37-year-old Panhia Danielle Yang of Sheboygan was pulled from Ponto Lake in rural Backus on Aug. 18. She died at a hospital a day later.

Officials say she had been swimming near the shore when she was found to be not breathing.



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