Two people were hospitalized in critical condition following an incident Saturday night in Montreal\u2019s Lachine Canal.<\/p>\n
The pair, described by paramedics as being in their 20s, were recovered from the water following an hours-long operation that began around midnight.<\/p>\n
Authorities believe one person dived into the canal in an attempt to rescue the other person, Montreal fire department section chief Kevin Francoeur said.<\/p>\n
The first person either jumped or fell into the canal, he said.<\/p>\n
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Two fire department boats and one police boat were on the scene at Ren\u00e9-L\u00e9vesque Park to respond to the incident, Francoeur said. Fire department divers recovered the pair from the water.<\/p>\n
Both were taken to a hospital in critical condition, Urgences-sant\u00e9 operations chief Steve Macduff said.<\/p>\n
Macduff and Francoeur said they could not confirm whether the two people had died, referring The Gazette to the coroner\u2019s office for further details.<\/p>\n
The coroner\u2019s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people were hospitalized in critical condition following an incident Saturday night in Montreal\u2019s Lachine Canal. The pair,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-782232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}