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NEAR YACHATS

U.S. Coast Guard, Oregon State Police, Lincoln County Sheriff's Office and Yachats Fire Department are at the scene of a double drowning in the Pacific Ocean near Smelt Sands State Park.

The body of an 18-year old male has been recovered and a second teenage male, age 17, is reported in the water as emergency responders work to recovery his body. No other information will be released at this time. Names are withheld until the victims' next of kin have been able to complete necessary notifications.

Preliminary information indicates on February 5, 2011 at approximately 12:40 p.m. OSP Northern Command Center dispatch was notified by Lincoln County 9-1-1 that a group of teenagers from the Eugene area were on a rocky outcropping near Adobe Resort on the south end of Smelt Sands State Park when two of them were swept into the ocean. Their friends were not able to help them and both subsequently drowned.