Article: WALES: Strong swimmer drowned as he tried to catch runaway canoe; HOW AN AFTERNOON OF FUN TURNED TO TRAGEDY.(News)

Byline: By GARETH HUGHES

A YOUNG man drowned after trying to recover a submerged canoe from the River Dee, an inquest heard yesterday

Thomas Czachur, a strong swimmer, had been having fun with friends near the Chainbridge Hotel, Llangollen, when the tragedy happened on July 22.

His friends told the hearing in Denbigh how the mood of the afternoon suddenly changed when they realised that the popular 22-year-old was missing.

Thomas, of Bridge Street, Shot-ton, had gone to Llangollen with Mathew Hall, Robert Bellis and Paul Armstrong and spent some time in a deep, slow-moving section of the river as well as in a fast-flowing, narrow ...

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