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Woman Who Drowned in Glacier National Park ID’d as Grad Student

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Atheer Abdulrahman S. Alquahtani was celebrating the end of her first year of a master’s program with a road trip with friends.

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The woman who fell into a creek and drowned at Glacier National Park this week has been identified as a University of Kansas graduate student who was celebrating the end of school with a road trip with friends, the National Park Service said. Atheer Abdulrahman S. Alquahtani, a 28-year-old from Saudi Arabia, was swept into a gorge and pulled out by bystanders who tried but were unable to revive her, The Wichita Eagle reported.

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