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Search continues for missing 27-year-old man in Niagara River

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The Niagara Regional Police Marine Unit will continue its search Thursday for a missing 27-year-old man in the Niagara River.

The Toronto man disappeared in the water on Sunday after he tried to help a friend who was struggling in the current.

The pair had entered the waters while out for a hike with a group of friends from Toronto.

Police arrived on scene and pulled a 22-year-old woman from the water in critical condition.

She was then transported on a Niagara Jet Boat to the docks in Queenston and taken to hospital via ambulance where she later died.

Officers from the Niagara Police Parks High Angle River Team, the Niagara police marine unit, the United States Coast Guard, the Canadian Coast Guard, and Niagara Jet Boats conducted vessel-based and shoreline searches for the man but he was not located.

On Wednesday, the Marine Unit moved its search efforts to focus on the mouth of the river at Lake Ontario.

Niagara police say officers will continue to search that area Thursday as well as the lower Niagara River.

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