Boy, 7, Drowns In Myrtle Beach Hotel's 'lazy River'

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Authorities say a Georgia child has died after being pulled from a Myrtle Beach hotel's water attraction.Horry County Deputy Coroner Darris Fowler tells new outlets that 7-year-old London Adams, of Atlanta, died at a hospital after being found in a "lazy river" pool at the Sheraton Broadway Plantation Resort Villas on Saturday evening.Fowler says Adams's cause of death was drowning.

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