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Police probe fatal jump in Bucks County

A man was pronounced dead by New Jersey State Police on Thanksgiving Day shortly after he jumped off the New Hope Toll Bridge along Rte. 202 in Bucks County, police said.

A man was pronounced dead by New Jersey State Police on Thanksgiving Day shortly after he jumped off the New Hope Toll Bridge along Rte. 202 in Bucks County, police said.

Police received the report of a person lying face down in the Delaware River at 1:32 p.m. Rescue units and a dive team were dispatched to the scene, according to Breaking News Network, a firm which monitors police radio traffic.

Rescue units lost sight of the floating form until 1:52 p.m., when the man was recovered in full cardiac arrest, the news network reported.

The man was taken to the New Jersey side of the river, where he was pronounced dead, the network reported and a police spokesman at the Kingwood Station of the New Jersey State Police confirmed.

The spokesman said the matter was under investigation and almost nothing was known about the man at mid-afternoon.