Ten-year-old child dead after ATV crash in Yarmouth County

By CityNews Halifax Staff

Posted Aug 21, 2023 04:18:34 AM.

Last Updated Aug 21, 2023 01:18:02 PM.

RCMP in Yarmouth County say a ten-year-old child is dead following an ATV crash.

Mounties were responding to a report of a missing child just before 11:30 p.m. Saturday night.

They say investigators found the child about two hours later in Gavelton.

The ATV was also found nearby in a ditch along Plymouth Gentian Road.

According to a news release from the RCMP, the child was visiting the Canaan area with their family but had left a residence earlier in the evening for an all-terrain vehicle ride and hadn’t returned.

The investigation is ongoing, assisted by the Nova Scotia Medical Examiner Service.

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