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Kansas City, Kansas, teen dies in Lake of the Ozarks drowning

Missouri Highway Patrol
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A 19 year-old Kansas City, Kansas, teen died earlier this week from injuries related to a swimming incident last month at the Lake of the Ozarks.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol said Yolanda Munoz-Garcia died on Monday, July 31.

Munoz-Garcia was swimming in the current around 1 p.m. on Saturday, July 29, near the mouth of the spring at Ha Ha Tonka State Park when she went below the surface and did not resurface.

A bystander was able to pull Munoz-Garcia from the water, after which she was taken to the nearby Lake Regional Hospital.