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Winnipeg woman drowns in Whiteshell Provincial Park

A woman has been charged in the drowning death of a five-year-old girl west of Edmonton last month. The RCMP logo is seen in Surrey, B.C., on Friday April 13, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck. DD

A 38-year-old Winnipeg woman is dead after a drowning in Whiteshell Provincial Park over the weekend.

It happened Saturday just before 1 p.m. at Sturgeon Falls near the Nutamik Lake.

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RCMP say a woman slipped on the rocks and fell into the water, where a strong current pulled her into the lake.

A Manitoba Conservation Service officer found the woman by boat. She was taken to hospital, but later died.

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