Three dead after falling through ice on lake near Humboldt

Two men and a girl are dead after they fell through the ice on a lake near Humboldt on Saturday.

In a release Monday, the RCMP said officers were called at around 2:20 p.m., to a house on Humboldt (Stoney) Lake to assist the Humboldt Fire Department and local paramedics who were responding to a report that several people had fallen through the ice into the lake.

According to witnesses, there were five people in the water, three of whom could be seen in the open water where the ice near the shore had been broken.

“The three were eventually recovered by firefighters,” the release said. “One adult female and one female child were taken to nearby hospital for assessment and one female child was pronounced deceased at the scene. The two other individuals, both adult males, did not resurface.”

The Saskatchewan RCMP Underwater Recovery Team searched the lake and, just after 5 p.m. on Sunday, divers recovered the bodies of the two men.

The Saskatchewan Coroners Service has taken over the investigation. Police said that because there wasn’t any element of criminality, they wouldn’t be releasing any other details, including the names of the victims.

650 CKOM has learned the victims were Chris Novecosky, Joe Novecosky and Ava Novecosky, a Grade 2 student at St. Dominic School in Humboldt.