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Posted on Sat, May. 10, 2008

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2 Ga. high school students drown

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CARTERSVILLE, Ga. --

Authorities have identified two North Cobb High School students who drowned at Lake Allatoona while skipping school with friends.

The bodies of 18-year-old Jose R. Solorio-Martinez 15-year-old and Edwardo Avalos were recovered Friday afternoon after the two drowned in about 60 feet of water hours earlier. Bartow County sheriff's Maj. Bryan Keeling says as many as 10 students from the Kennesaw high school were at the lake Friday when they should have been at school.

Family members say Avalos was trying to save Solorio-Martinez, who had begun struggling in the deep water near Red Top Mountain Beach. Others from the group of students tried to help the pair but could not.

Solorio-Martinez was 18 days from graduating high school.