Obituaries

Report: Cherokee High Grad Killed in Vietnam

Holly Pyle, 25, was sleeping on a tour boat anchored in Ha Long Bay near the Vietnam-Chinese border when it sank.

graduate Holly Pyle was one of two Americans killed early Thursday when a tour boat filled with water and sank near the Vietnam-Chinese border, according to a report in today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Pyle, 25, was scheduled to return home on Monday after a 6-month tour of Asia.

Eleven other people from nine different countries were killed in the accident, which remains under investigation.

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