Third body pulled from ‘unforgiving’ waters in Squamish, B.C., boat tragedy: RCMP

By Brenna Owen The waters of the Squamish River roared under rainy skies Friday, as search and rescue crews recovered the bodies of three people who died when a boat overturned in the swollen waterway north of Vancouver, following days of heavy rain and flooding in the region. Insp. Robert Dykstra, the officer in charge of the Sea to Sky RCMP, said there were originally about eight people aboard the boat Thursday, and police said no one is unaccounted for. But Dykstra wasn’t sure why they were on the water or what caused the boat to overturn. “I do believe that they ran into something. That’s all I really know at this point,” he told reporters on Friday. Dykstra said he believed the boat was local to Squamish and he…

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