{"id":454,"date":"2026-09-28T00:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T00:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recipecrush.delicedcook.com\/?p=454"},"modified":"2026-09-28T00:18:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T00:18:39","slug":"teacher-tries-to-save-pupil-drowning-in-lake-but-both-tragically-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recipecrush.delicedcook.com\/?p=454","title":{"rendered":"Teacher tries to save pupil drowning in lake but both tragically die"},"content":{"rendered":"

A teacher tried to save a pupil who<\/a> was drowning in a lake before both tragically died.<\/p>\n

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Hannah Jorgensen, 24, attempted to save year 5 pupil Ahmed Osman after the 10-year-old wandered over to a lake in the Macbridge Nature Recreation Area, in the US state of Iowa, earlier this week. Despite her best efforts to rescue 10-year-old Ahmed, both of them died in the tragic circumstances.<\/p>\n

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First responders were alerted at about 12:10pm on Tuesday following a report of people in the water at Lake Macbridge. They recovered Hannah’s body about 30 minutes later and she was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n

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Crews carried out searches overnight and later found Ahmed’s body in the water at about 1:34pm the following day. The incident happened during a Borlaug Elementary trip to the recreation area located in eastern Iowa.<\/p>\n

Ahmed’s father, Mohamed Osman, 59, told The New York Times, on September 24, that Hannah tried to save his son but that both drowned. He added: “We didn’t believe he would leave us this soon.”<\/p>\n

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