Three people drowned in Nevada County this week and two of them were identified on Sunday.
According to the Nevada County Coroner’s Office, 26-year-old Enrique Nieto-Hernandez drowned in the Yuba River on July 4 and 29-year-old Juan Carlos Rangel-Avila drowned near the Scotts Flat Reservoir dam on July 5.
Nieto Hernandez was a Yuba City resident and Rangel-Avila was a Reno resident.
A 24-year-old man from San Francisco also drowned in the Yuba River on the Fourth of July, but the coroner’s office has not yet released their identify.
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