18-year-old killed in St. Louis County snowmobile crash

Published 6:58 pm Monday, December 18, 2017

ORR  — Authorities have identified the teenager killed in a snowmobile crash in northeastern Minnesota.

The St. Louis County Sheriff’s Offics said 18-year-old Kirja Kishel, of Eveleth, died when the snowmobile on which she was riding crashed into a forestry road gate northwest of Orr Saturday morning.

A second person on the snowmobile, a 21-year-old Gilbert man, was injured and taken to a Duluth hospital. His condition is not known. Authorities haven’t said which person was driving the snowmobile.

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