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- On Dec. 16, 2025, a truck carrying two people fell into the ice in the Canadian province of Manitoba, the RCMP said
- Authorities said on Jan. 8 that the body of Corbin Constant, 31, one of the occupants of the vehicle, was recovered
- Tasha Ferland, the other person who was with Constant in the truck, remains missing
The body of a missing man has been found weeks after a truck he and another person were riding in fell through ice in the Canadian province of Manitoba last month, authorities said.
A spokesperson for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police confirms to PEOPLE that searchers recovered Corbin Constant on Thursday, Jan. 8.
A woman who was with him, Tasha Ferland, remains missing.
Constant and Ferland were 31 and 23, respectively, the CBC and the Winnipeg Free Press reported.
Authorities were first notified early on Dec. 16 a that a pickup truck was traveling out onto Cedar Lake when it fell into the ice. The incident occurred about 250 feet from shore, near the Manitoba Hydro boat launch, prompting the RCMP and other officials to respond to the scene, the RCMP previously said.
“Investigators were able to determine that the vehicle, containing a male and female passenger, drove out onto the ice when it broke through,” the RCMP said on Dec. 17. “Tracks were seen leading from the boat ramp out onto the ice. The two occupants were unable to escape the vehicle before it went under.”
Despite the deployment of a drone and an underwater recovery team in the immediate aftermath of the incident, the two victims were not quickly found.
The Hutterian Emergency Aquatic Response Team, a search and recovery nonprofit group, said in a statement on social media that it took part in the search operation late last month using specialized underwater robotics technology.
“We could only access the search area safely with our airboat,” HEART said in a Dec. 31 social media statement. “We found and recovered one of the missing persons’s cell phone. We have to now presume that the bodies are downstream from there towards the generating station.”
Constant’s family has remembered him as a “beloved son, brother, grandson, nephew and friend” who left a “lasting imprint on everyone’s heart and touched the lives of all who knew him,” according to the CBC.
The Canadian news outlet reported that Constant was a member of the Misipawistik Cree Nation.
“The recovery of one of our loved one … meant a lot,” Misipawistik Cree Nation Chief Heidi Cook said this weekend, adding that Constant’s relatives were relieved and grateful, according to the CBC.
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Further search efforts for Ferland are expected to continue, depending on weather conditions, the RCMP says.
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