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By Aaron Schulze

Carpenter Lake Death

One person dead after truck goes into Carpenter Lake west of Lillooet

Sep 16, 2024 | 6:30 AM

LILLOOET, B.C. — A person was found dead in Carpenter Lake west of Lillooet.

On Sept. 7, at around 10:16 p.m., Lillooet RCMP say officers were asked to check in on a man without clothes along Lillooet Pioneer Road 40 by Carpenter Lake.

However, while en route, police say they were told the man was given a ride by a driver to a nearby resort lodge. He said he was in a single-vehicle collision where the black Dodge Ram pickup truck he was in went into Carpenter Lake. A second occupant was still believed to be in the truck.

In a news release issued Sunday (Sept. 15), RCMP say its Underwater Recovery Team held a water dive in the area the following day and found the vehicle submerged in the lake with the sole occupant inside deceased.

RCMP say the family of the deceased were notified, and the vehicle was recovered and towed out of the lake. The incident is still under investigation.

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