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Last updated on Sunday, August 4, 2013
(PATOKA) - Indiana Conservation Officers are conducting a death investigation at Patroka Lake.
According to Indiana Conservation officer Jim Schreck, 47-year-old Roberto Abaiger, of Indianapolis was pronounced dead at Bloomington Hospital Orange County.
Shortly after 5 p.m. officers and Orange County EMS personnel were called to the lake after a report of an unresponsive male.
Crews provided CPR and were unsuccessful in reviving Abaiger.
Schreck says, Abaiger was being towed on an inflatable tube behind a boat when he began having chest pain. Shortly after re-boarding the boat, he became unresponsive and was transported to shore.
Abaiger was wearing a lifejacket at the time of the incident
An autopsy is scheduled, and official cause of death is pending.
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