Man fishing on Lake of the Woods feared dead
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A man is presumed dead after a vehicle is believed to have gone through the ice on Lake of the Woods.
RCMP were contacted about a missing 71-year-old man shortly before 9 p.m. Tuesday. He had driven to his ice-fishing shack on Buffalo Bay, near Manitoba’s borders with Ontario and Minnesota, in a side-by-side utility-terrain vehicle earlier that day.
The shack is about five kilometres north of the Buffalo Point marina, RCMP said in a news release Thursday.
Mounties could not search the ice Tuesday night. Using a drone Wednesday, they found tracks headed to the shack and then to a pressure ridge — a pileup of ice fragments.
In a separate incident, two people are presumed dead after a pickup truck went through the ice on Cedar Lake. Grand Rapids RCMP were called about that incident early Tuesday.
Two men died after they fell through ice in Kinosao Sipi Cree Nation and Pimicikamak Cree Nation on the same weekend in late November