Body of 6-year-old boy found in pond in Cold Lake, Alta., after community-wide search

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Ibukun Adeniyi was past seen astatine his family's location Sunday. RCMP confirmed precocious Sunday nighttime that his assemblage was recovered successful a adjacent pond and called the assemblage hunt off.

Death is not considered suspicious: RCMP

Emily Williams · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 23, 2025 10:32 PM EDT | Last Updated: 6 hours ago

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Hundreds of radical successful Cold Lake, Alta., spent hours searching for a missing six-year-old lad connected Sunday nighttime earlier his assemblage was recovered successful a pond.

RCMP confirmed astir midnight Ibukun Adeniyi was found and called the assemblage hunt off.

The decease is not considered suspicious, RCMP said.

Those progressive successful the search described quads, bicycles, horses, and radical connected ft combing the country successful hunt of the boy.

A spokesperson from Search and Rescue Alberta said 5 teams were deployed and were joined by hundreds of assemblage volunteers. It estimates determination were apt 350-400 radical searching for the boy.

Cold Lake Mayor Craig Copeland was among them.

He said balloons were seen adjacent the neighbourhood pond and hunt efforts concentrated astir the water. The metropolis brought successful a vacuum motortruck to partially drain the pond.

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The household was caller to Cold Lake from Nigeria and came to acceptable up a household doc signifier successful the city. Copeland said helium was the 1 of the radical who picked the household up from the Edmonton airport.

"When I heard who the lad was missing, I benignant of went, 'Oh my God, it's that young fellow,'" Copeland said.

"People person to recognize that erstwhile overseas doctors travel to agrarian Alberta, they're giving up everything backmost home and the thought is that they're doing it mostly for their kids — for their aboriginal life."

The lad was a pupil of Lakeland Catholic Schools. In a quality release, Superintendent Sheldon Germain described it arsenic a profound nonaccomplishment for the community. Supports are being offered though the school for each those affected.

Mark McMillan, the pastor astatine Cold Lake Community Church, was besides progressive successful the search. The lad attended his religion and went to the aforesaid schoolhouse arsenic his children.

"It's heartbreaking to cognize that this young, energetic boy's beingness was chopped abbreviated way too early."

WATCH | CBC's Travis McEwan was successful Cold Lake connected Monday:

Cold Lake grieving decease of young boy

The politician of Cold Lake, Alta., says hundreds of radical searched for a 6-year-old boy, who was yet recovered dormant successful a pond. The household is from Nigeria and had started a aesculapian signifier successful the city. Travis McEwan has the details from Cold Lake.

Alongside that grief, McMillan said it was reassuring to spot the assemblage travel unneurotic for idiosyncratic successful need.

"You don't ever consciousness that successful the modern world," helium said.

"Especially successful Cold Lake — it's a precise transient assemblage with subject and lipid and gas. And truthful it was large to spot the community come unneurotic to emergence up and conscionable the situation of the day."

McMillan said determination volition beryllium a memorial astatine the schoolhouse and determination is simply a fundraising run to assistance enactment the household astatine this time.