Platoon Chief Tom Coffey confirms the body of a missing 31-year-old man was recovered around noon on Sunday ( Tiffany Goodwein/ CHAT NEWS)

By Tiffany Goodwein

BREAKING: Body of missing man found

Aug 2, 2020 | 3:16 PM

MEDICINE HAT, AB- The body of a man who went missing in the South Saskatchewan river has been found, The Medicine Hat Fire Service confirms.

Platoon Chief Tom Coffey told CHAT News Today that the body was found around noon on Sunday.

“”We resumed operations where we left off last night at the last seen point of the victim and at approximately 12 p.m. our divers maintained that they had recovered the body at that time” Coffey said.

The body was recovered about 150 feet west of the Finlay Bridge, not far from where the victim was last seen in the water.

“The divers are trained to do sweeps of the river floor and that’s how we picked up the body this morning,” Coffey said.

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