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Recovery effort underway at Lake Newell: RCMP
Oct 20, 2022 | 12:22 PM
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NEWELL COUNTY, AB – A recovery effort is underway Thursday morning, October 20, 2022, at Lake Newell, about 15 kilometres south of Brooks, Alberta.
According to RCMP, just before 4:00 p.m. on October 19, witnesses reported a diver in distress. The diver was doing maintenance on a dam and never returned.
RCMP and emergency crews are on-scene and a recovery effort is currently taking place.
The diver is being reported as a 55-year-old man from Brooks.
