Kennebec River Photo: 560 WGAN Newsradio
A Skowhegan man drowned while boating on the Kennebec River, Saturday morning.
A boat traveling up the river of the Hinkley Boat Launch in Skowhegan at around 11:20 am, when 21-year-old Jakub Prokop was thrown from the boat and would eventually drown in the river.
Prokop was a passenger and wasn’t wearing a lifejacket.
The incident remains under investigation.
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