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WINDSOR JUNCTION:<\/strong> A 31-year-old man from Windsor Junction has been confirmed by police as the victim of a drowning on Saturday night June 4 in the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sgt. Andrew Joyce, spokesman for Halifax District RCMP, said police are investigating after the man was found deceased after swimming at Three Mile Lake in Windsor Junction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”31″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”34″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Police, along with Quint 9 from Lower Sackville and Station 41 Waverley and Station 45 Fall River, and EHS were called at 8:54 p.m. on June 4 after the man became distressed while swimming and went under.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The RCMP’s Dive team was called into the scene to search for the man’s body, before crews from nearby Halifax Ground Search and Rescue based out of Lakeview were requested. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sgt. Joyce said the man’s body was located in the water at 1:48 a.m. today by Halifax Ground Search and Rescue using side scanning sonar and pronounced deceased at the scene. <\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”6″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”127′]<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said an investigation by the RCMP and Nova Scotia Medical Examiners Service is ongoing into the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The death has left a somber mood over the tight knit community, with people sending their thoughts and prayers in posts online and ready to help out the family during this difficult time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”84″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”148″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”95″] [adrotate banner=”93″] WINDSOR JUNCTION: A 31-year-old man from Windsor Junction has been confirmed by police as the victim of a drowning on Saturday night June 4 in the community. Sgt. Andrew Joyce, spokesman for Halifax District RCMP, said police are investigating after the man was found deceased after swimming at Three Mile Lake […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[3797,3798,40],"class_list":["post-29052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-drowning","tag-three-mile-lake","tag-windsor-junction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}