BAUDETTE, Minn. – A man died, apparently drowning, when a vehicle equipped with bulldozer tracks broke through ice on Lake of the Woods near the Canada border. Five other passengers escaped with the help of the driver. The fatality, a man whose name was not released immediately by Sheriff Gary Fish, was recovered seven hours later by divers. The tracked vehicles, called “bombers,” are operated by resorts to take people out for ice-fishing. Ice has been unusually thin Up North for December.
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