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River Search Near Osborn, IL-Update

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Update 6-25: The Rock Island County Coroner has released the name of the man whose body was pulled from the Rock River Sunday. 25-year-old Boi Lian Za Thang, originally from Burma, was pronounced dead at 8:15 Sunday night.  The Coroner says Za Thang was fishing, when he and another person decided to walk or swim across the river to get to a rope swing on the other side. That's when he slipped under the surface.

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Quad Cities area first responders recover the body of a man in the Rock River Sunday evening. Rescue crews spent hours searching near Osborn, Illinois in rural Rock Island County.

First responders got the call at about 5:15 p.m. that two people were in the water. One of them was picked up by a nearby pleasure boater and officials say that person is okay.

Crews with Hillsdale, Hampton, Cordova, Port Byron and the Illinois DNR combed the water until late Sunday searching for the second person. At about 8:15 they recovered the body of a male from the water near Osborn.

Officials are not saying what the two people were doing in the river. Their identities are not being released either, except that they are from Burma.