Dead woman found floating in Okanagan Lake

KELOWNA – RCMP recovered the body of an adult woman floating in Okanagan Lake just off City Park in Kelowna this morning.

Just before 10 a.m. today, April 4, police received a report of a person floating face down in Okanagan Lake, according to an RCMP news release.

Kelowna RCMP, Emergency Health Services and Kelowna Fire Department staff were all at the scene and were not able to revive the woman.

RCMP say the investigation is in its earliest stages, but criminality its not suspected.

Due to the privacy of the deceased, her name will not be released, police say.

RCMP say no further information will be released to the public.


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Rob Munro

Rob Munro has a long history in journalism after starting an underground newspaper in Whitehorse called the Yukon Howl in 1980. He spent five years at the 100 Mile Free Press, starting in the darkroom, moving on to sports and news reporting before becoming the advertising manager. He came to Kelowna in 1989 as a reporter for the Kelowna Daily Courier, and spent the 1990s mostly covering city hall. For most of the past 20 years he worked full time for the union representing newspaper workers throughout B.C. He’s returned to his true love of being a reporter with a special focus on civic politics