Drowning

A 64-year-old man who drowned while attempting to cross the Saint John River from northern New Brunswick to Maine with two other people was originally from India and had been working in the Madawaska area.

Maine Game Wardens on Wednesday recovered the body of a 55-year-old man who drowned after apparently falling out of his fishing boat on a pond in Oxford County.

A West Baldwin man drowned in a remote lake in western Maine on Monday while trying to swim to shore after mooring his boat in front of his camp.

A 12-year-old boy died Sunday after falling into a stream near Principale Street in the Saint-Basile sector of Edmundston.

A two-year-old boy remains in critical condition after he was found unresponsive Tuesday in a small farm pond in Cornville, Maine.

Officials say a 13-year-old boy and the man who tried to rescue him drowned Friday in the Mattawamkeag River in Island Falls.

A report released today by the Canadian Red Cross shows males account for 93 per cent of boating-related deaths in Canada and failure to wear a personal flotation device or life jacket continues to be dominant factor.