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Police investigating after drowning in Meaford, Ont.

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Police are investigating after a 51-year-old person drowned in Meaford, Ont.

Ontario Provincial Police said on August 14 at 1:58 p.m., officers received a report of a person in distress in the water just off Grant Avenue.

Police said the victim was removed from the water and was pronounced deceased “after life saving measures were unsuccessful.”

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Officers have identified the deceased as 51-year-old Dzenad Icagic from Etobicoke.

“The Grey Bruce OPP are continuing to investigate the circumstances surrounding this death, it is considered nonsuspicious,” police said in a news release.”

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