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Utah woman dies rafting the Snake River

Posted at 6:35 AM, Aug 22, 2016
and last updated 2016-08-22 10:48:05-04

Pamela Soloman of West Jordan, Utah died while rafting on the Snake River in Idaho with a Mormon church group.

Church spokesman, Eric Hawkins says she was with a youth conference group on Thursday when she fell from the raft. Soloman was wearing a life jacket and was pulled from the water, but according to Hawkins she had swallowed a lot of water.

She was taken to a hospital in Jackson, Wyoming where she later passed away.