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A passerby found a man’s body floating in a Miami canal, police say. Here’s what we know

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A man’s body was found floating in a Miami canal Wednesday afternoon, police said.

Around 11:23 a.m., a passerby called 911 and said a body was floating in the Seybold Canal near the Northwest Seventh Street bridge, Miami police spokesman Officer Mike Vega said.

When officers and firefighters arrived, they found the body face down floating on the river behind 641 NW Seventh Street Rd. Rescuers recovered the body and paramedics declared him dead.

Cause of death was not immediately known.

This developing story will be updated.

Omar Rodríguez Ortiz
Miami Herald
Omar is a bilingual and bicultural journalist, covering breaking news in South Florida for the Miami Herald. He has a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin and a bachelor’s degree in education from the Universidad de Puerto Rico en Río Piedras.
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