One dead, one missing after empty kayaks found in Credit River
CREDIT RIVER Andrew Collins, Special for thePeel paramedics, Halton police and Caledon OPP are seen on the banks of the Credit River after one woman was pronounced dead on the scene after a kayaking accident near Winston Churchill Blvd. in Halton Hills Sunday afternoon. Police are searching for the body of a second person, a man, paramedics said. Their empty kayaks were found stuck in the ice of the Credit.
Hamilton Spectator
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One kayaker is dead and another is missing after their kayaks were found empty and stuck in the ice of the Credit River in Caledon Sunday afternoon.
Emergency crews responded to a section of the Credit River near Winston Churchill Blvd. and King St. at 2:50 p.m. after a receiving a complaint about two empty kayaks stuck in the ice in the middle of the river, according to the Ontario Provincial Police.
Crews later recovered the body of a female kayaker. She was pronounced dead on scene, Peel paramedics said.
Paramedics said police were searching for a second body, but on Sunday evening, an OPP spokesperson could not confirm whether the search for the second kayaker, a male, is being treated as a search-and-rescue or recovery mission.
OPP Aviation Services, Emergency Response Team members and K9 and patrol officers are currently searching for the male and will deploy more resources, including the Underwater Search and Recovery Unit, Monday morning.
The name of the female kayaker has not been released pending notification of next of kin.