60-year-old dies after multiple people fall from boat on river, Colorado officials say

A 60-year-old man died after falling overboard while on a boating trip on a Colorado river, officials said.

At 1:30 p.m. on June 19, multiple people “fell out of a boat as it entered the Boat Eater Rapid” in Canon City, according to a news release by Colorado Parks and Wildlife.

They were on a “three-boat commercial trip” on the Arkansas River, officials said.

The people that fell from the boat were rescued by other boats on the trip, the release said.

The man was unresponsive when he was pulled from the water and was taken to the shore, where a guide administered CPR, officials said. Another guide got a heart defibrillator.

Emergency personnel arrived at the scene and pronounced the man dead, officials said.

The Fremont County coroner will identify the man and determine his cause of death, the release said.

Canon City is about 120 miles southwest of Denver.