One person is dead and another is missing after a boating accident on Canada Day in Nova Scotia’s Kings County.
The RCMP and other emergency crews responded to a report that people had been ejected from a boat on Aylesford Lake around 4:45 p.m. Wednesday.
Police say five men from Kings County had been in the boat when the surface conditions of the water changed, and two passengers were thrown from the vessel.
A nearby boater found one man in the water. The 70-year-old man from Aylesford was pronounced dead at the scene.
The three men who remained in the boat were not injured.
Search efforts are ongoing to locate the second person, identified as a 58-year-old man from Aylesford.
“There will be a significant presence of police and first-responders in the area around Aylesford Lake as this investigation continues,” said the RCMP on Thursday.
The Joint Rescue Coordination Centre, Valley Ground Search and Rescue, the Civil Air Search and Rescue Association, and RCMP Underwater Recovery Team are all involved in the search.
This is the second fatal boating incident in Nova Scotia this week. A 24-year-old man also died after he was thrown from a boat in the Northumberland Strait Tuesday night.
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