26-06-2024 20:36 via bc.ctvnews.ca

Child drowns after tube flips over in B.C. lake

An 11-year-old boy died after drowning in a lake in southeastern B.C. last weekend, according to authorities. Kimberley RCMP were called to Wasa Lake on Sunday for reports of a possible drowning.  "Three children had been on an inflated tube that had flipped over due to high winds and rough waters and one of the children, an 11-year-old boy, did not make it to shore," a news release from the detachment says. Mounties, along with a Good Samaritan, searched the lake by boat and found the boy
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