Authorities identify missing boaters found dead in Jordan Lake

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WTVD) -- Two boaters who went missing on Jordan Lake in Chatham County on Sunday have been identified.

According to the Chatham County Sheriff's Office, the body of one of the boaters was found Tuesday morning, and the body of the second boater was found on Wednesday morning.

On Monday, rescue crews from several agencies worked morning to evening, searching for two boaters who presumably fell overboard Sunday evening during Tropical Storm Chantal.

Depuites said 25-year-old Daniel Garcia Garcia and 36-year-old Manuel Mauro Sifuentes Soto, both of Durham, launched a canoe from the Martha's Chapel Road canoe access on Sunday. They entered the water around 5 p.m., and their unoccupied canoe was recovered later that evening.

"We are deeply saddened by the loss of these two young men," said Sheriff Mike Roberson. "Our thoughts are with their families and loved ones."

In all, there were six deaths in North Carolina attributed to Tropical Storm Chantal.

Three of them were in Chatham County, including the two boaters. A Chatham County woman, 83-year-old Sandra Hirschman, of Pittsboro, died after her car was swept away on Farrington Point Road.

Two of the deaths were reported in Alamance County.

The Graham Police Department said 23-year-old Hajar Hassib was last seen Sunday as she was returning home. Family members reported her missing the next day. Hassib was eventually found in her car, which was submerged in a roadside pond.

Also on Sunday, 71-year-old James Parcell, of Haw River, died when his car was swept off the road south of Mebane. He was found in his submerged car about 50 to 100 yards from Jones Drive and Calloway Drive.

The other death happened in Orange County, when a Person County woman on her way to work in heavy rain Sunday night was found dead Monday about 120 yards from her flooded SUV on Wilkerson Road.