4 swim to shore before Texas towboat accident

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PORT BOLIVAR, Texas (AP) — The Coast Guard says four people on a pleasure boat safely swam to shore before their disabled 15-foot vessel was hit by a towboat in Southeast Texas.

Coast Guard officials say nobody was hurt in Sunday afternoon’s accident that closed a 2-mile stretch of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway near Bolivar (BAW’-luh-vuhr) Peninsula. The waterway reopened Sunday night.

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