Fatal Sunday on Quebec water: 2 drown in separate incidents and 1 person missing – Montreal | 24CA News

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Published 30.07.2023
Fatal Sunday on Quebec water: 2 drown in separate incidents and 1 person missing – Montreal | 24CA News

Two individuals drowned in separate accidents on Sunday, whereas police proceed to search for a lacking swimmer in a 3rd incident.

A person in his 50s from Chateau-Richer, which sits about 25 kilometres east of Quebec City, died within the early afternoon after he was discovered unresponsive close to a physique of water.

Provincial police spokeswoman Camille Savoie says the sufferer was on a paddle board when he fell into the water, and resuscitation efforts did not revive him.

At across the similar time, a 91-year-old lady drowned in a swimming pool within the Loretteville space of Quebec City.

First responders tried to revive her with a defibrillator, however she was pronounced useless at a close-by hospital.

Meanwhile, authorities proceed to seek for a person in his 30s who disappeared after leaping into the Rouge River within the municipality of Huberdeau close to Mont-Tremblant.

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