An 80-year-old hunter, missing for two weeks, was found unresponsive on Friday afternoon in Laurentian Park.
Posted at 6:22 p.m.
The Sûreté du Québec (SQ) found the body of a man on Friday around 1 p.m. in the Laurentides Wildlife Reserve, near kilometer 50 of Route 169.
Police had been dispatched to the area in search of Marcel Maltais, who had been missing since October 6. Identification procedures are underway, but everything indicates that it is the missing man, said Stéphane Tremblay, spokesman for the SQ.
The SQ rescue unit found the lifeless body 800 meters from Marcel Maltais’ van, spotted by the police on Thursday.
The octogenarian was last seen in Hébertville in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean. The reasons for his death remain unknown, according to the authorities.