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1 killed, 4 hospitalized after canoe capsizes

By Gal Tziperman Lotan

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  May 12, 2012

A Leominster man died when the canoe he was riding in with four other people capsized in the Notown Reservoir, near the Fitchburg line, early Saturday morning, officials said. A Worcester County district attorney spokesman identified the man as Julio Perez, 31. Perez was pronounced dead at 3:52 a.m. in HealthAlliance Hospital Leominster Campus. The accident also left three men and one woman in critical condition, State Police said.

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