The OPP’s Underwater Search and Rescue Unit found the body of 23-year-old Kyle Buswa-Virta after a two-day search.
Buswa-Virta was missing on Sunday, when he did not return from a kayak trip on Lake Driving north of the Garden River First Nation.
Sault Ste. Marie OPP Detachment, OPP Northeast Canine Unit, Emergency Response Team (ERT), Aviation Services: Helicopter, Underwater Search and Rescue Team (USRT), First Nation Police Service Batchewana, Sault Ste Police Service (search for ariel with a drone), Sault Ste Marie Search and Rescue (Marine) responded and searched the area from 10:30 pm on June 5 until his body be discovered around 3:30 p.m., June 7th.
The investigation is ongoing under the direction of the Office of the Chief Forensic Officer and the Ontario Forensic Pathology Service (OCC-OFPS).
An autopsy is expected in Sault Ste. Marie at a later date.