The Neosho County Sheriff’s Office said a college student drowned over the weekend while swimming with friends in the Neosho River.
Deputies were called to Detners Dam around 6 p.m. Saturday. They were told that a 21-year-old international student from Fiji had jumped off the dam, then he was caught in the river current and drowned. He was a student at Neosho County Community College.
Crews recovered the man’s body and it was sent to a facility for an autopsy. The name of the student has not been released.
