One person is dead after a tragic boating mishap on Lake Manitoba.
RCMP said a group of four boaters were reported missing late Thursday evening. Police were told they had left earlier that day near Oak Point, off Highway 6, and hadn’t returned.
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Emergency crews searched the shores overnight but were unable to locate them.
On Friday morning, three survivors, all residents of Lundar, two males, age 36 and 53, and a 37-year-old female, were eventually found just north of where they had originally launched their boat.
A 54-year-old woman from Oak Point was found dead nearby.
RCMP found the submerged boat near the shoreline.
It’s unknown if any of the boaters were wearing life jackets.
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