Two boys, aged 10 and 13, are believed to have slipped into the fast-moving rapids near Sturgeon Falls Trail in Manitoba’s Nutimik Lake on Saturday.
RCMP say a search is underway involving their underwater recovery team and the Hutterian Emergency Aquatic Response Team (HEART).
Officers were called just after 12:30 p.m. Saturday about the possible drowning in Whiteshell Provincial Park after the boys fell into the rapids and had not resurfaced, RCMP said in a news release on Sunday.
Police and local firefighters and other emergency responders searched the water and along the shorelines using boats and drones, but the boys have yet to be found, the news release stated.
The search is ongoing.
A 38-year-old woman drowned at the same location in June 2025 and a 12-year-old boy drowned there in May 2023.
The falls are a wide set of rapids between Numao and Nutimik lakes, which are wide parts of the Winnipeg River, about 135 kilometres east of Winnipeg near the Manitoba-Ontario border.
