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BOSTON — Massachusetts State Police say two Rhode Island residents pulled from a pickup truck that plunged into the Charles River off Route 28 in Boston have died.

Police responded about 6:40 p.m. Saturday and found the truck fully submerged in the water near Leverett Circle. The two occupants, a man and a woman, were removed and taken to Massachusetts General Hospital, where they later died.

Police identified the two as 36-year-old Brian Arcand of North Smithfield, and 36-year-old Rebecca Smith of Providence.

Authorities say their truck went through a red light, side-swiped a car then went off the road and into the water.

Divers searched the river and found no one else.

The car driver, a 35-year-old Milton woman, wasn’t injured. Neither was her passenger, a 36-year-old New York woman.

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