Provincial police say one person is dead and another is missing following an apparent boating mishap on Lake Erie.
The OPP‘s Chatham-Kent detachment say officers responded to a report Friday morning of an overturned vessel about 100 metres from the shore of Rondeau Provincial Park.
They say a couple of hours later, at around 11 a.m., firefighters located an unresponsive person on the shoreline of the park who was later pronounced dead.
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Police say that upon further investigation they learned that a second person had been in the capsized boat and was missing.
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The search for that person is expected to resume Saturday.
Investigators have not yet released any information about the victims.
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