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Public Help Sought in Search for Missing Pair
Police and community searchers are checking the river and abandoned buildings after video showed only one of the two entering the site.
The Thunder Bay Police Service is intensifying the search for Ashlynn Bottle and Nodin Skunk, who disappeared from the Pool 8 grain elevator on April 26 after entering the Syndicate Avenue South property.
Surveillance video from April 26 shows Bottle and Skunk entering the property with a third individual at 4:30 p.m.; the third person was recorded leaving at 5:30 p.m., but no footage shows the pair exiting.
Thunder Bay Fire Rescue and criminal investigators conducted exhaustive searches using drones to inspect silos and buildings, searching every nook and cranny of the property, but have not located the missing individuals.
Missing person coordinator Jeff Saunders indicated that a thorough underwater search of the Kaministiquia River is the next step, with the Ontario Provincial Police providing specialized crews from Orillia, 1,200 kilometres away.
Mishkeegogamang First Nation Chief Merle Loon has established a command centre at the Prince Arthur Hotel, appealing to the public for video footage from April 26 between 6:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. to help locate the missing family members.