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A longshoreman has died after a vehicle he was driving at the Port of Los Angeles plunged into murky waters, a port spokesman said Monday evening.
The man was operating a utility tractor rig on a dock at the Evergreen terminal when it fell into the main channel off Terminal Island on Monday afternoon.
The vehicle sank to the bottom of the 50-foot channel, where the victim was pulled from its cab by Los Angeles Fire Department SCUBA divers, officials said.
The man was taken on an LAFD boat to a nearby fire station as rescuers tried to revive him. His name and age were not released.