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Associated Press - January 18, 2010 4:05 AM ET
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A teenage boy is recovering after being hit in the leg by a large icicle that fell from a cliff where he and others were hiking.
Authorities told the Cookeville Herald-Citizen that it took three hours to rescue the youth in a ruggedly steep area in the Austin Bottom area near Center Hill Lake.
Rescue officials said they rappelled down and put a rope harness around him. A helicopter ambulance landed in a farm field nearby and flew the boy to a hospital.
The name of the youth was withheld because he is a juvenile.
Information from: Cookeville Herald-Citizen, http://www.herald-citizen.com/
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