VICTORIA – The coroners service has identified a woman who was pulled from a fast-flowing river on Vancouver Island.
Twenty-six-year-old Veronika Weaver of Comox could not be resuscitated in hospital on Friday, when a baby was also rescued from the water.
Regional coroner Matt Brown says the unidentified child remains in BC Children’s Hospital in Vancouver.
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Passersby spotted Weaver and the baby in the Puntledge River near a bridge near downtown Courtenay mid-afternoon and called authorities.
Brown says Weaver was pulled from the river by members of the RCMP and search-and-rescue volunteers about 1.5 kilometres downstream.
Police have not yet determined how the pair ended up in the water, although they believe a vehicle parked near the bridge belonged to Weaver.
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