On June 1, 2017, at approximately 11:45pm, Lundar RCMP responded to a report of four missing boaters on Lake Manitoba. Information was received that they had launched earlier the same day near Oak Point, off Highway 6, and were overdue to return.
RCMP along with local emergency services conducted multiple shore searches overnight without success. The following morning, RCMP, along with assistance from community boaters, began lake patrols.
Police say that three survivors, two males, ages 36 and 53, along with a 37-year-old female, all residents of Lundar, were eventually located on the eastside lake shore, north of their launching point. A 54-year-old female from Oak Point was found deceased nearby. The boat was later found submerged near the shoreline.
It is unknown at this time if any of boaters were using life jackets.
