MONTREAL: A Canadian guide died and five French tourists were missing after their snowmobiles plunged through ice into freezing water in northern Quebec, Canadian police said Wednesday. Ice on the lake is often very thick, but it is thinner where the lake funnels into the Saguenay River. France’s deputy consul general in Quebec, Laurent Barbot, who visited the site, told reporters that the missing French tourists were from the east of France. The missing tourists, aged 24 to 58, are Alsatian or Vosgian. In February 2019, two French tourists, a mother and her son, were killed in a snowmobile accident in a Quebec nature park.

Source: New Strait Times January 23, 2020 01:52 UTC