Teen dies in Searchmont

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************************* OPP investigate death of 16-year-old youth

Investigation is continuing

HODGINS TWP, ON - On November 7, 2010, at approximately 12:30 a.m. Sault Ste. Marie Ambulance, OPP and Searchmont First Response were called to a residence in the 100 block of Hult Road regarding an unconscious 16-year-old male.

Sixteen-year-old Dylan Hult of Searchmont and an older male had left on a fishing trip on Saturday November 6, 2010, at approximately 1 p.m. on the Goulais River near Whitman Dam Road.

The two travelled down the Goulais River in a 12-foot aluminum boat with paddles.

The plan was to travel as far as Rendell’s Corner and then camp overnight.

According to the other male, they were approximately one-quarter kilometre before their final destination when the 16-year-old stood up in the boat and fell overboard into chest-deep water.

The other male jumped in and assisted the 16-year-old to shore.

The male then carried the boy on his back through a wooded area towards the roadway in an attempt to get help, arriving at a residence on Hult Road.

The boy was transported to Sault Area hospital by ambulance and pronounced deceased a short time after.

An autopsy is scheduled for today in Sudbury at the Sudbury Regional Hospital.

The investigation in continuing.

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