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Small ice floes in the water (symbolic image)
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In the bay of Green Bay in the eastern US state of Wisconsin, emergency services rescued at least 27 people from a floating chunk of ice, reports US media, including "CNN" and "ABC News".
No one was injured in the incident in one arm of Lake Michigan on Saturday morning.
The sheriff's office announced that many of the people rescued were ice fishing at the time of the incident.
Accordingly, the chunk of ice was drifting about three-quarters of a mile by the time it was rescued and was about a mile from shore when all were brought to solid ground.
According to the authorities, the stranded were on the separated chunk of ice for around 90 minutes.
A barge passing through the bay may have caused the chunk of ice that broke off the shore, according to the sheriff's office.
A witness reported a noise that sounded like someone had fired a gun.
"We thought it would be interesting, got out of our hut, looked and saw that the people on the ice were screaming: 'We're separating,'" he said on the television station WLUK-TV.
In the end, the aborted could be rescued with hovercraft.
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