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A woman from Huron County has died after she was pulled from the water near the Goderich pier on Wednesday.
Emergency crews and the Canadian Coast Guard responded shortly before noon to a report of an unconscious person in the water in Goderich, along Lake Huron.
The woman was found by the Coast Guard and taken to hospital where died, despite life-saving efforts by emergency and hospital staff, Huron OPP said.
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Police did not know the woman’s identity initially. Someone later reported a loved one missing and the deceased was identified as a 66-year-old woman from Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh Township, a rural muncipality north of Goderich, police said.
Police did not release the woman’s identity. The OPP is working with the Office of the Chief Coroner to determine the cause of her deat. Anyone with information is asked to call 1-888-222-8477.
Two other London-area residents died in the region’s Great Lakes waters last month, including a 57-year-old London kayaker in Lake Huron near Grand Bend and a 14-year-old London boy who went swimming in Lake Erie off Port Stanley but did not resurface. In both cases, major searches were launched.
A month earlier, in June, a 32-year-old swimmer died after he went missing in Erie’s waters off Leamington.
401 lanes reopen after truck fire near Sweaburg
A long stretch of Highway 401 west of Woodstock reopened Thursday following a dramatic late-night fire hours earlier.
Traffic in the highway’s east lanes was heavily backed up Wednesday night after a tractor-trailer was engulfed by blames, with the OPP closing a stretch of more than eight kilometres between Foldens Line and Mill Street near Sweaburg as emergency crews dealt with the fire.
No injuries were reported.
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