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Woman Dies After Falling From Raft On Arkansas River

CANON CITY, Colo. (AP) — Fremont County authorities say a woman has died in a rafting accident on the Arkansas River.

Sheriff's Sgt. Megan Richards says the victim, a woman in her 40s who has not yet been identified, died Sunday after falling out of the raft west of Canon City. She had been on a trip with a commercial rafting company at the time of the incident.

Her cause of death and other details about the incident have not yet been released.

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