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One dead after a boat capsizes near Texada Island

RCMP on Texada Island are investigating after a boat carrying two passengers sank in the Straight of Georgia on Saturday night.

Officials are now say a body recovered on Texada Island, Sunday belongs to a man who had been on the boat.

The other passenger, a woman, was able to survive.

Lieutenant Paul Pendergast from CFB Comox, Coast Guard says a woman in her 30’s managed to swim hours to safety.

Pendergast says the woman was taken to hospital with hypothermia.

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