Boat flips on Lake Dardanelle; 2 men missing

DARDANELLE — Authorities are searching for two men who disappeared after their boat overturned on Lake Dardanelle.

The Pope County sheriff's office said it received a call about 3 a.m. Thursday of a possible drowning. Sheriff Aaron DuVall said four men were in the boat on Lake Dardanelle when the boat flipped over.

DuVall told The Courier that two of the men made it safely to shore, but two others remain missing.

Crews from the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission and emergency management offices from Pope and Johnson counties are searching in the water for the missing men.

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