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MANSFIELD, Ohio - A woman drowned after jumping into fast-moving floodwaters to try to rescue her 9-year-old daughter, who slipped on a stone walkway into the water and was swept through 460 feet of drainage pipe into another creek.

The girl emerged from the pipe without serious injuries and was able to get out of the water and seek help, police Lt. Dave Nirode said. Firefighters found the body of her mother, Dianna Snyder, 40, about 100 feet downstream from where the girl came out of the pipe.

Snyder's drowning Wednesday in north-central Ohio at Kingwood Center, a public garden in Mansfield, was the first death reported in three days of storms.

The girl fell into a creek bed that is usually dry, Nirode said, but the steady rain swelled the creek to 4 feet deep and about 10 feet wide.

Awww that is sooo sad!

How sad!

this was so sad to read, tragic