Dive team recovers body of missing snowmobiler from N.S. lake

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Published Friday, February 19, 2016
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BLACK RIVER, N.S. -- An RCMP dive team has recovered the body of a 26-year-old man more than five days after he went through ice while snowmobiling on a Nova Scotia lake.

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Police say three snowmobilers went through the ice while crossing Black River Lake on Saturday evening.

They say two people were rescued, but a man from New Ross went missing.

The Mounties say an underwater recovery team found the body Friday shortly before 11:30 a.m. near where the snowmobile went through the ice.



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