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Branson mourns for 17 killed in sinking of packed duck boat
Officials cite weather as a factor
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People pray outside Ride the Ducks, an amphibious tour operator involved in a boating accident on Table Rock Lake, Friday in Branson, Mo. - photo by Associated Press
BRANSON, Mo. — The country-and-western tourist town of Branson, Missouri, mourned Friday for more than a dozen sightseers who were killed when a duck boat capsized and sank in stormy weather in the deadliest such accident in almost two decades.
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