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Woman plunges to death from Queen Mary

Posted on Dec 07, 2011

Police believe a 26-year-old woman was intoxicated when she fell to her death from the Queen Mary tourist attraction in Long Beach, Calif.

She had been witnessed climbing over a walkway railing just before the fall into the water on Monday night, said Long Beach police spokeswoman Nancy Pratt. Her 40-year-old boyfriend and a ship worker immediately jumped into the water to save her, Pratt added. All three were still in the water when the police arrived. The woman and boyfriend were departing the ship after visiting a bar. They were both unidentified. The cause of death was unknown and an autopsy was scheduled by the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office.

Police are treating her death as accidental.

The boyfriend had symptoms of hypothermia and another person was being treated at a local hospital

This was the first death in recent memory at the Queen Mary.

Source: Reuters

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