Ice floe detaches from Minnesota lake and strands 100 fishermen

Rescuers in are racing to get to up 100 fishermen trapped on an ice floe which has broken away and drifted from the shore.

The fishermen were ice-fishing on Friday on Upper Red Lake, 200 miles north east of the city of Fargo and 100 miles south of the Canadian border.

Officials said that no one is believed to be in the water, and rescue boats are on the way. It was 30 degrees when the news broke on Friday evening.

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