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Female Body found in Atchafalaya River near Berwick

Gerald Herbert/AP

FILE - In this Friday, April 27, 2018 photo, a old logging canal cuts through Bayou Sorrel in the Atchafalaya River Basin in Louisiana. A federal appeals court's ruling allows construction to continue on a crude oil pipeline through an environmentally fragile Louisiana swamp. A divided panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday, July 6, 2018, vacated a lower court's preliminary injunction blocking construction of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

By: Aidan Taylor

Posted at 4:42 PM, May 01, 2022

and last updated 2022-05-01 18:17:03-04

According to KWBJ TV22 in Morgan City, the body of an unidentified female was found in the Atchafalaya River near Berwick on Sunday morning, May 1st 2022.

St. Mary's Parish Marine Deputies were dispatched to the location and later recovered the body.

An investigation has been opened and further information will be provided as it becomes available.
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