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Jun 21, 2009 8:51 pm US/Eastern

Authorities Search For Missing Swimmers In Potomac

CABIN JOHN, Md. (AP) ― Montgomery County fire department officials say they are searching for two men who had been swimming in the Potomac River.

Department spokesman Capt. Oscar Garcia says authorities responded to a 4:40 p.m. call from a hiker who said she saw people in the river near Purple Horse Beach yelling for help. Montgomery and Fairfax county water rescue units as well as a park police helicopter responded to the area of the 9500 block of Macarthur Boulevard.

Garcia says other witnesses reported seeing at least six swimmers in the water. He says four were found by authorities after getting to the shoreline on their own.

He says officials believe two men remain missing, although there have been reports that they may have exited on the Virginia side of the Potomac.

Authorities remain on the scene.

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