Minnesota: 200 anglers rescued from broken ice chunk

Around 200 people have been rescued after they were stranded on a large chunk of ice that broke away in a Minnesota lake. The local sheriff's office said the people adrift on Upper Red Lake in northern Minnesota were fishing when the ice broke. Anglers were surrounded by up to 90ft (27 metres) of …


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