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School teacher and 10-year-old student di£ during field trip at state park

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An elementary school teacher and a fifth-grade student di£d during a field trip to a local state park on Tuesday, September 22, after both ended up in the reservoir, according to authorities and school officials.

Hannah Jorgensen, a 24-year-old fifth-grade teacher at Borlaug Elementary, was found d£ad Tuesday afternoon inside the Coralville Reservoir at Lake Macbride State Park.

About 25 hours later, dive teams recovered the body of 10-year-old student Ahmed Osman in the same body of water.

The pair had been visiting the park during a “School of the Wild” field trip Tuesday at the Macbride Nature Recreation Area, the Iowa City Community School District told Fox  News.

“Hannah and Ahmed were so much more than members of our school community,” the district wrote in a statement on Facebook.

“Their absence will be felt in the classrooms and hallways of Borlaug, in the lives of those who loved them, and throughout our entire school district community.”

The district is offering support and counseling at Borlaug Elementary for those in need.

“In the difficult days ahead, we will hold one another close and continue to surround the Borlaug community with love, care, and support,” the district added.

“We will remember Hannah. We will remember Ahmed. And we will carry their memory with us.”

A massive search-and-recovery task force — including the Johnson County Metro Dive Team, local fire departments, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, State Patrol, the US Army Corps of Engineers, and medical crews — swarmed the area to help find the missing student and teacher, authorities said.

It’s not immediately clear how the pair ended up in the water.

Iowa  Gov. Kim Reynolds offered her condolences to the elementary school’s students and staff.

“This unimaginable loss touches the entire Borlaug Elementary community and Iowa City School District,” Reynolds said in a statement.

“Please know that Iowans across our state are standing with you in the difficult days ahead.”

Osman and Jorgensen’s de@ths remain under investigation

Fidel Perez

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