RCMP say they think they have recovered the body of a 31-year-old man who was last seen floating down a river on Nova Scotia’s South Shore after his tube capsized earlier this week.
Police said in a news release today the human remains found have been tentatively identified as belonging to the missing man but added that the medical examiner’s office still needed to confirm.
They say a member of the public saw a body floating where the Gold River meets the ocean.
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The man had been tubing downriver with two other men when their tubes capsized on Monday.
Two men made it ashore, but one 31-year-old was last seen drifting down the river, some 80 kilometres from Halifax.
Police called off the search after determining the man had been swept out to sea.
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