Man Pulled From Canal Dies

Posted: 3:49 pm MDT March 28, 2011
Updated: 4:21 pm MDT March 28, 2011

EL PASO, Texas -- A man died Monday morning after a water rescue at a canal alongside the Border Highway near Yarbrough Drive.

El Paso firefighters and a water rescue team were sent to the canal around 7:15 a.m.

Authorities performed CPR on a man who they said was in his 30s, but he later died at the hospital, officials said.

They said another man was also in the canal, but was able to get out on his own. He was turned over to Border Patrol, firefighter officials said.

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