Rescue efforts shelved for mushroom pickers missing in northwestern B.C.

TERRACE, B.C. – The official search has been suspended for two Terrace, B.C., men missing for more than a week in a rugged area outside the northwestern B.C. city.

Thirty-two-year-old Michael Devlin Sabo and 26-year-old Ike Murray were picking mushrooms last weekend with Sabo’s brother when they disappeared.

Volunteers and search and rescue team members have been looking for the two in the area east of Terrace, between Lorne Creek and Fiddler Creek, where they were last spotted.

Spokesperson Dave Jephson believes the pair are still in the area because they would be hemmed in by natural barriers such as a river and mountainside.

About 25 Canadian Rangers, a volunteer team from the Armed Forces, joined the search efforts over the weekend but found no trace of either man. (CFTK)