Missing driver and vehicle found 47 metres deep in water, says search and rescue
KELOWNA — A search and rescue team in Kelowna, B.C., says a missing person was found about 47 metres deep in a lake after being swept away in a “massive mudslide” earlier this month.
Central Okanagan Emergency Operations says the landslide happened on Westside Road at about 9:45 p.m. on April 1, shutting down the road in both directions.
Central Okanagan Search and Rescue team says in an online statement that its team responded to the scene on April 1 after the mudslide, which sent more than 20,000 tons of debris across the highway into the Okanagan Lake.
The search and rescue team was called off after no reports of missing persons at the time, but says work resumed on April 6 after receiving a report of a missing person who was driving along the road during the slide.
