Carolina University student dies in quarry drowning

WINSTON-SALEM, NC (AP) — A soccer player and student at Carolina University in Winston-Salem has drowned in a quarry.

The Winston-Salem Journal reported Wednesday that Emmanuel Korwor Konneh drowned at Balfour Quarry in Salisbury.

He and three friends had gone to the area to swim Konneh had moved with his family to the Concord area from Liberia over two years ago.

He was a freshman soccer player at Carolina University.

The school was formerly known as Piedmont International University.

Konneh was a freshman in the Patterson School of Business.

He was pursuing a management degree.