2 married couples from Honduras were among 5 adults who drowned in an Ohio river

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2 married couples from Honduras were among 5 adults who drowned in an Ohio river

POWELL, Ohio (AP) — The skies were mostly clear and weeks of sweltering heat had finally broken as 33-year-old Jose Mario Pineda Dias and his 28-year-old wife, Marina Suyapa Regalado, set out with their two children for some leisurely fishing in an Ohio river. A second Honduran couple and an adult friend joined them.

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