2 dead, including teen, in separate drownings in southwestern Ontario

Two abstracted drownings person resulted successful nan deaths of a 66-year-old female and a 16-year-old youth.

Huron County OPP and section emergency services, on pinch nan Canadian Coast Guard, were called to nan Goderich pier July 31 astir 11:50 a.m. for an unconscious personification successful nan water.

The individual was recovered by nan seashore defender and taken to nan Goderich Hospital. After extended life-saving efforts by emergency services and infirmary staff, she was pronounced dead. Officers attempted to find adjacent of kin to corroborate her personality and were capable to do truthful a short clip after, erstwhile a family personnel reported her missing. She was identified arsenic a 66-year-old female from Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh Township.

Police are moving pinch nan Office of nan Chief Coroner to find nan origin of death.

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Around 2:24 p.m. connected nan aforesaid day, Essex County OPP a personification successful distress was reported successful Lake St. Clair, successful nan Municipality of Lakeshore. Emergency crews recovered a personification successful nan h2o who was taken to a section infirmary but yet pronounced dead. The 16-year-old was from Tillbury.

The incident remains nether investigation and location is nary interest for nationalist safety.