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Local women drown while on vacation
Swept out to sea by rogue wave
Updated: Thursday, 10 Jan 2013, 11:17 PM EST
Published : Thursday, 10 Jan 2013, 11:16 PM EST
MANSFIELD, Mass. (WPRI) -- A tragedy has claimed the lives of two Mansfield women who were on vacation in Mexico.
Gail Binmore and Donna Batta drowned while staying with friends at a Cancun beach resort. Family members told WBZ-TV in Boston Binmore and Batta were wading in shallow water Tuesday night, when a rogue wave swept them out to sea.
In a statement to Eyewitness News Thursday night, Batta's family said they were "devastated" by her death.
"She was a kind and caring mother, wife, daughter, sister and friend, and she will be missed by all of us," the statement read.
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