Two young people found lifeless after a canoe excursion

Two young people elderly in the twenty parties in canoeing excursions were found lifeless on Monday. Meanwhile, near the Restigouche river.

Candlels flooded social networks on Monday in the evening to underline the death as tragic as sudden of two young adults from Restigouche-Ouest-Michael Dugas. Furthermore, Marie-Soleil Thériault-which occurred this weekend following a camping outing on the river.

The couple had started their trip on Friday with the goal of sleeping along the way. Furthermore, He had to come back early during the day on Sunday. Meanwhile, Worried not to have their news, the family asked for the public help to keep their eyes open.

“On Monday, family members left Campbellton and went up the river. Meanwhile, They spoke to canoes met on the way, but no one had crossed them. Moreover, On the other hand, they said they saw a red canoe two young people found lifeless and a tent mounted in the Red Bank sector. Moreover, It was there that they finally found the inert couple in their tent at the end of the afternoon on Monday. Meanwhile, “confirms the chief of the Kedgwick fire brigade, Christian Gallien, whose team was called in reinforcement in order to recover the two remains.

According to the latter. However, everything suggests that an extra gas heating system used inside the tent would be the cause of death, therefore carbon monoxide poisoning.

“The nights are cool even at this time of year on the river. They probably wanted to warm up. It is possible that during the night. the system has died, but that the gas continued to spread in the tent, ”he said.

According to the firefighter. who quotes the said of the coroner, deaths would have occurred during the first night of their departure, that from Friday to two young people found lifeless Saturday.

“Actoint heating systems. it is not ideal, but almost everyone uses it when it comes to camping on the edge of the river. What happened here is really a terrible unluckiness. And it is all the more sad that it happens to two young people in the age of the. age of our communities. This is the worst tragedy to occur on the river for many years, ”continues the firefighter.

This drama shakes the whole community of Restigouche-Ouest, the couple from Kedgwick and Saint-Quentin. In this last city. the shock is all the more difficult to take while the young victim, Marie-Soleil, held a job there last summer.

“She was one of our student projects, and she left behind a very good memory. We were all devastated by learning the news of his death as well as that of his companion. ”expresses with great emotion the mayor of Saint-Quentin, Nicole Somers.

“Our entire community is very affected by what has just happened. No matter where we are going. who we talk to, today it is all Saint-Quentin and all Kedgwick who are in mourning. We lost two very loved young people. We are wholeheartedly behind families experienced by this tragedy, ”she adds.