Quebec Man Credited With Saving Drowning Eight Year Old Boy in Massachusetts

Quebec Man Credited With Saving Drowning Eight Year Old Boy in Massachusetts
Gabriel Roy poses with his girlfriend Kasandra Rodgers in this handout photo on Horseneck Beach in Westport, Mass. Westport Police Department/The Canadian Press
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MONTREAL—A Quebec tourist is being credited with saving an eight-year-old boy who was swept away by an undertow and nearly drowned at a beach in southeastern Massachusetts.

The Westport Police Department says it began receiving calls at about 7:45 p.m. on July 25 about a young boy being pulled underwater several times and for several minutes at Horseneck Beach.