The search for a 12-year-old boy who slipped and fell into the Winnipeg River in Whiteshell Provincial Park on Saturday is over.
An RCMP underwater recovery team found the body of Usaid Habib around 1 a.m. Monday.
The drowning happened at Sturgeon Falls shortly before noon on Saturday.
The falls are a wide set of rapids between Numao and Nutimik lakes, about 135 kilometres east of Winnipeg near the Manitoba-Ontario border.
“We searched pretty much around the clock,” said Tara Seel, media relations officer with RCMP in Manitoba.
Manitoba RCMP’s underwater recovery team was out about 100 metres from the shore at Sturgeon Falls on Sunday.
