51-year-old woman dead after being pulled from water near Brackley Beach

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A pistillate from P.E.I.’s Queens County is dormant aft being recovered successful the h2o adjacent Brackley Beach connected Monday night, according to RCMP.

‘This was not the result we had hoped for,’ said RCMP Chief Supt. Kevin Lewis

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· Posted: Mar 18, 2025 9:49 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

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A pistillate from P.E.I.'s Queens County is dormant aft being recovered successful the h2o adjacent Brackley Beach connected Monday night, according to RCMP.

Emergency crews responded to a study of a missing idiosyncratic whose conveyance was recovered successful P.E.I. National Park astatine Brackley Beach astatine astir 3:45 p.m.

The 51-year-old pistillate was recovered successful the h2o by a Coast Guard chopper conscionable earlier 8 p.m. AT. She was brought to enactment by a New London occurrence section vessel and taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital, wherever she was pronounced dead.

"Our thoughts are with the victim's family, arsenic this was not the result we had hoped for," RCMP Chief Supt. Kevin Lewis said successful a quality release.

"We would similar to convey our partners … that went supra and beyond to find the unfortunate adrift successful the ocean."

The hunt included RCMP constabulary canine services and a drone operator; Parks Canada unit and boats; P.E.I. Ground Search and Rescue; the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre and a Canadian Coast Guard helicopter; the North Shore, New Glasgow and New London occurrence departments; and Island EMS.

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