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QUEENS COUNTY\/FALL RIVER:<\/strong> Two children from Fall River have died following a fatal boating accident on Saturday in Queens County, RCMP say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a release, RCMP said that Queens County District RCMP is investigating a fatal boating incident in West Caledonia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On October 18, at approximately 4:56 p.m., RCMP, EHS, fire services and the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC) responded to a report of a boater in distress in Lake Rossignol.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Officers learned a man and three children were in a boat when it overturned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The 45-year-old man and three children from Fall River, were located and transported to hospital via a search and rescue helicopter.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The man and a child have non-life-threatening injuries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, two children have succumbed to their injuries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

File #: 2025-1551954<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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QUEENS COUNTY\/FALL RIVER: Two children from Fall River have died following a fatal boating accident on Saturday in Queens County, RCMP say. In a release, RCMP said that Queens County District RCMP is investigating a fatal boating incident in West Caledonia. On October 18, at approximately 4:56 p.m., RCMP, EHS, fire services and the Joint […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[9486,2,9487,2057,14],"class_list":["post-59440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-boating-accident","tag-fall-river","tag-fatal-boating-accident","tag-queens-county","tag-rcmp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59440","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=59440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}