"Firefighters were able to hook the animal's reins with a boat hook and bring it alongside a paddleboat, " the report said.

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The area is a well-known retreat for many Afghans from Kabul, who come to the lake to swim, take paddleboat rides and picnic.

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Thirty-three years later, Frederick would become the Bishop of Honduras, and he would drown in 1923, at age eighty-nine, when the overloaded paddleboat he was on sank in eighteen feet of water.

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