Long weekend proves to be deadly on Lake Simcoe

Long weekend proves to be deadly

Six people are dead and another is presumed dead after a series of accidents on the water over the long weekend.

The bodies of three Richmond Hill men have been pulled from Rice Lake.

The three men were not wearing life jackets when they went out with four others on a fishing trip on Sunday.

In another incident, a 27-year-old swimmer drowned late Sunday afternoon in Lake Simcoe.

The body of a 79-year-old man was found Friday after he went fishing alone on a lake near Sault Ste Marie.

A man has also drowned after his canoe flipped over on Wolf Lake northeast of Madoc. He also wasn't wearing a life jacket.

It was also a deadly weekend on the roads.

Two people were killed in a motorcycle crash around 5 p.m. yesterday at Burnhamthorpe and Hurontario.