'It was an instinct': Stranger saves 5-year-old girl from drowning in Manuels River
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Ian MacDonald, a stranger at Manuels River in Conception Bay South, jumped into the water and rescued 5-year-old Stella Spacio after she was swept underwater despite wearing a lifejacket; her mother had been unable to reach her in the current.
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