Police reoprt one dead and three missing in boating accident on Slocan Lake
NELSON, B.C. – A 19-year-old woman is dead and three youths are missing after a canoe overturned in a West Kootenay lake.
Sgt. Darryl Little says emergency crews were called to the lake yesterday, where they found the woman and rushed her to hospital.
She died later on.
A rescue operation continues for the three people between 16 and 21 who were last sighted on Slocan Lake.
Little says three of the people are from the nearby village of New Denver and one is from Gibsons.
He says the water is ice cold and glacier fed and that arial, dive and foot patrols continue to sweep the area for survivors.
Little says none of the youths appeared to be wearing life jackets.
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