Two young women who were swept away while swimming and pulled unconscious from the water off the North Shore of Massachusetts on Sunday have died, authorities announced Friday.
The women were rescued by fishermen in the Merrimack River area of Newburyport’s Plum Island Point after 7 p.m. on Sunday, according to City Marshal Matthew Simons and Fire Chief Stephen Bradbury III.
The women were initially brought to Anna Jacques Hospital and later transferred to hospitals in Boston and Burlington in critical condition…