VICTORIA - Authorities say a man is dead following an ice fishing accident in western Illinois.
Knox County Sheriff's Department officials say a 50-year-old man was pulled from Long Lake near Victoria Sunday afternoon and pronounced dead several hours later at a nearby hospital.
The man and his son were ice fishing. The son left the lake and came back to find a hole in the ice and fishing equipment partially submerged.
Dive teams from Peoria County and Coppas Creek assisted the Knox County Sheriff's Department.
The weather Sunday was sunny with highs in the upper 30s. - http://goo.gl/DpAeW
