5-year-old dead after canoe overturns on Wabamun Lake: Alberta RCMP

A five-year-old girl is dead after a canoe carrying two people overturned in a lake west of Edmonton on Sunday.

In a news release issued Sunday night, Parkland RCMP said officers were called to a report of a capsized boat on Wabamun Lake just before 3 p.m.

They said a young girl was recovered from the water by bystanders before police and paramedics arrived. The five-year-old girl died despite the lifesaving efforts of paramedics.

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“The office of the chief medical examiner has been engaged and the investigation continues,” police said.

“Determination into the use of any personal floatation devices in the watercraft is part of the investigation.”

The other person who had been in the canoe is a 35-year-old woman who was pulled from the water by someone on another boat at the time that it capsized, according to police.

Wabamun Lake is located about 70 kilometres west of Edmonton.

–with files from Phil Heidenreich, Global News

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