12-year-old boy dies in rafting accident during school trip to the Poconos: Superintendent

drowning around 6:12 p.m. Wednesday. Prior to their arrival, the child had been removed from the water by the Lehighton Fire Department Dive Team, he said.

The child was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. Wednesday, Smith said in a statement, calling it a “tragic loss.”

Following an autopsy on Thursday, his cause of death has been ruled a drowning and the continue reading …