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Last updated on Monday, June 24, 2013
(KENDALLVILLE) - Authorities say swimmers and medics successfully revived a 3-year-old boy pulled from underwater at a northeastern Indiana lake.
The Indiana Department of Natural Resources says the boy is being treated at Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne and is expected to make a full recovery. His name has not been released.
It says the boy was in Bixler Lake in Kendallville about 6:30 p.m. Saturday when he went underwater. He was unresponsive when a nearby swimmer pulled him from the water. People at the scene performed CPR on the boy until medics arrived.
A 5-year-old boy died after being found floating in Bixler Lake on June 16.
Kendallville is about 25 miles north of Fort Wayne.
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