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One-year-old boy drowns in Lake Winnipeg

A one-year-old boy drowned in Lake Winnipeg this week, RCMP said.

The one-year-old was reported missing from her home in Behrens River on Tuesday.

Family members searched the area and found the child in the water along the shore, RCMP said in a release Wednesday.

Family members administered first aid and rushed him to a local medical center where he was pronounced dead.

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