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Dive Teams to Resume Search Sunday for Man Who Vanished in Voorhees Lake
Police in Voorhees, New Jersey, will resume searching Sunday for a man who became submerged in a lake late Friday night after officers responded to a 911 call near the Camden County Library. Dive teams and search-and-rescue crews have already scoured the water.
VOORHEES, N.J. â Search crews are set to return to the water Sunday morning to look for a man who disappeared beneath the surface of a lake in Voorhees late Friday night, according to township police.
Officers were dispatched around 11:50 p.m. Friday to the area near the Camden County Library and Laurel Road after a 911 call came in, police said. When they arrived, they spotted a man in a nearby lake and attempted to make contact with him. During that effort, the man went under the water and did not resurface.
Surveillance footage reviewed by investigators showed the man running toward the bank of the water before he went missing, police said.
Fire personnel, emergency management officials, dive teams and search-and-rescue crews responded to the scene and began searching for the man overnight, according to police. Authorities said additional information would be released as it becomes available.
Police have not publicly identified the man or said what may have led him into the water. The circumstances surrounding the disappearance remain under investigation.
The search is concentrated in the area around the library and Laurel Road, a busy stretch of the township that borders a residential neighborhood and public facilities. Officials are asking residents to avoid the area while crews continue their work.
Anyone with information that could assist the search is urged to contact Voorhees police.