19-year-old drowns in northern Ontario lake
A 19-year-old man from southern Ontario has died after jumping off a boat into a lake east of North Bay, police say.
Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is investigating a drowning incident on Papineau Lake in Papineau-Cameron Township.
On Thursday shortly after 11 a.m., members of the North Bay OPP detachment along with Papineau-Cameron Fire Department and District of Nipissing Paramedic Services responded to the incident, OPP said in a news release.
“The OPP underwater search and recovery unit attended and recovered a body from the water,” police said.
The victim is from Fenwick, near Niagara Falls.
“He was in a boat and jumped into the water,” OPP Const. Nathalie Muirhead said in an email to CTV News.
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The police investigation is ongoing under the direction of the Office of the Chief Coroner for Ontario and the Ontario Forensic Pathology Service.
A post mortem has been scheduled.
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