LAUREL COUNTY, Ky. (LEX NEWS) \u2014 The Laurel County Sheriff’s Office is conducting a death investigation after a 56-year-old London woman was found deceased in an apparent drowning on Saturday. <\/p>\n
According to a press release, deputies were dispatched around 1 p.m. Saturday by the London-Laurel County 911 Communications Center to conduct a welfare check after a female body was discovered floating in the water off of Kentucky Highway 1956, approximately 11 miles west of London. <\/p>\n
Officials have identified the deceased individual as 56-year-old Terry Vickers. She was pronounced dead on-scene by Laurel County Coroner Doug Bowling. According to the sheriff’s office, authorities believe Vickers’ death was caused by drowning. <\/p>\n
The death investigation is ongoing. Assisting the sheriff’s office on scene were Kentucky Fish and Wildlife, Laurel County Ambulance, London-Laurel Rescue Squad, and Swiss Colony Fire and Rescue. <\/p>\n
This is an ongoing story, and LEX News will provide more information as it becomes available.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAUREL COUNTY, Ky. (LEX NEWS) \u2014 The Laurel County Sheriff’s Office is conducting a death investigation after a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1024950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[283240,748,13652,393,4884,40172,66167,257,283239,16,15],"class_list":["post-1024949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-apparent-drowning","tag-britain","tag-drowning","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-laurel-county","tag-laurel-county-sheriffs-office","tag-london","tag-terry-vickers","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116745280349932940","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1024950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}