DUPLIN COUNTY, N.C. -- Two people were killed in a boating accident in Duplin County.

It happened Thursday afternoon on the northeast Cape Fear River off of Hallsville Road near Beulaville.

The names of the two people involved have not yet been released.

North Carolina Wildlife officers are still investigating what happened.

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