Police have found a body in the Ottawa River east of Pembroke, Ont., near where a kayaker went missing earlier this week.
According to the OPP, the body was recovered on Saturday afternoon but police have not yet been able to confirm the person’s identity.
Police believe they drowned though an autopsy will be done to confirm the cause of death.
Search crews from the OPP and the Sûreté du Québec plumbed the waters since Wednesday morning after a kayak carrying a 34-year-old man and a 30-year-old woman capsized. They had come upon rapids near the Des Allumettes Bridge east of Pembroke, the OPP said.
Police, with the help of private citizens, rescued the man.
Though the body found Saturday has yet to be identified, the search has been called off as there are no other known missing boaters in the area, Cst. Shawn Peever told CBC.
The investigation into the recovered body continues.