WOLLASTON LAKE, Sask. – Rescue workers are no longer searching a northern Saskatchewan waterway for a missing 66-year-old man after two snowmobilers fell through the ice on Tuesday.
At around 12:40 p.m. Wednesday, the man was found deceased beneath the ice. His name has not been released.
On Tuesday morning, a witness saw two men travelling on separate snowmobiles near his cabin on a river near Peter Lake when they broke through the ice.
A 64-year-old Wollaston Lake, Sask. man was able to get out and make it to the cabin. He did not require immediate medical assistance.
The second man, also from Wollaston Lake, did not surface.
Members of the Wollaston Lake Patrol 4th Canadian Ranger Patrol Group spoke by cell phone with the two men at the cabin to pinpoint their location.
A chartered plane then took four rangers and a Mountie to Cigar Lake Mine where they were then taken to the cabin.
The victim’s body was located approximately five feet away from where he was last seen. Mounties have indicated there is not much of a river current, which assisted in locating him.
The snowmobile was located 20 feet from the shore.
RCMP say the coroner from La Ronge, Sask. has not ordered an autopsy.
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