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<p>WILKES-BARRE &#8212; A woman was taken to a hospital after she claimed she fell off a bridge and into the Susquehanna River on Monday afternoon, authorities report.</p><p>Crews were dispatched to the rear of the Luzerne County Courthouse at approximately 3:30 p.m. At the rear of the courthouse, officers and EMS personnel could be seen loading a woman into an ambulance on a stretcher.</p><p>The woman appeared to resist officials at times. She kept screaming as she was loaded into the ambulance.</p><p>County Sheriff Brian Szumski said the woman came into the rear of the courthouse soaking wet, but added she did not appear to have any visible injuries that would suggest she fell.</p><p>Szumski noted the woman told two separate stories. In one, she claimed she had been in the river, the sheriff said; in the other, she said she fell into the river off a bridge.</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">A woman is loaded into an ambulance after officials say she arrived at the rear of the Luzerne County Courthouse claiming she fell into the Susquehanna River from a bridge. Travis Kellar | Times Leader</div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/web1_RIVER.jpg</photo0><caption0>A woman is loaded into an ambulance after officials say she arrived at the rear of the Luzerne County Courthouse claiming she fell into the Susquehanna River from a bridge. Travis Kellar | Times Leader</caption0><photoCredit0></photoCredit0></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Travis Kellar</p><p>tkellar@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Reach Travis Kellar at 570-991-6389 or on Twitter @TLNews</p></shirttailMeta></div>

Officials: Woman claimed she fell off bridge into river