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Teenager Drowns Off Tybee Island

 Patty Crosby     Created: 4/7/2009 6:44:25 AM    Updated: 4/7/2009 6:56:11 AM
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TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. (AP) -- Authorities say a teenage boy who drowned while swimming on the Georgia coast apparently was caught in a powerful undertow.

Tybee Island authorities said the 15-year-old was swimming with friends when he was swept away in the south channel at about 3 p.m. Monday.

Search crews recovered the body shortly before 11 p.m.

The boy's name was withheld.

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