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At least 13 people, including children, were killed during a spilled and sunken boat trip, Thursday night (7/19/2018) in a lake, during a storm in the United States. State of Missouri.
The Stone County County Office said Friday morning that four people had not been found after the sinking of the "Ride the Ducks" boat on Table Rock Lake in the Branson area. Divers from the Missouri State Patrol are looking for four men.
Thirty-one people are in a vehicle called a duck, which can operate on the water or on land. According to officials, 14 people were saved.
This boat is one of two canoes sailing in the water at that time. The other boats managed to reach the continent, called various reports.
President Donald Trump, via Twitter on Twitter, conveyed "the deepest sympathy to their families and friends who had a terrible Missouri boat accident."
Steve Lindenberg, a weather expert at the National Weather Service in Springfield, Missouri, said his office issued a powerful storm warning in the Branson area Thursday (July 19). Lindenberg said the gale has reached speeds of over 100 kilometers per hour.
Stone County Sheriff, Doug Rader, states that the first request for an emergency phone call was received at 7:09 pm.
The president of the company owns the duck, in an interview on CBS This Morning, said the vehicle was "not supposed to be in the water." CBS quotes Jim Pattison Jr., president of Ripley Entertainment, answering the following question: That He told CBS that the lifejacket was in the boat but by law, pbadengers were not required to to wear it.
In the honor of the victims, Missouri Governor Mike Parson ordered the flags to be half-masted until dusk on July 27th.
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