LAKE OF THE WOODS - A body has been found on Lake of the Woods near the Canadian border after a man disappeared six months in a boating accident on the lake.
The Lake of the Woods County Sheriff's Department told the Northern Light Region Tuesday night that its deputies and Ontario Provincial police found the body. Dispatchers received a report of a body in the water near the border, though the exact time and location of the discovery was not released. The Sheriff's Department told the Herald no other information would be released Tuesday night.
The find comes after Lake of the Woods Sheriff Gary Fish said an aerial search for Keith Ayers, 28, conducted early last week turned up no new leads.
Ayers, along with Justin Kelly Haugtvedt, 22, and Cody Joseph Ostendorf, 24, were reported missing on Oct. 3 after their boat was found capsized on the northeast corner of Flag Island, which is just south of the Canadian border on Lake of the Woods.
The bodies of Haugtvedt and Ostendorf were found a week after they were reported missing, but searchers have only found Ayers' shoe and jacket.
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All men were from Baudette, Minn.
The Sheriff's Department declined to release information on the find, including the identity of the victim. Canadian authorities are expected to release more information today.
