Akwesasne police say body found near island in St-Lawrence River

MONTREAL — Police in Akwesasne Mohawk Territory say a body has been found near a small island in the St. Lawrence River.

The body was located about 10 kilometres northeast from Snye, Akwesasne, where the bodies of eight people were found in a marshy area of the river last March.

Police have said that those eight people — two families of Indian and Romanian migrants — died during a failed attempt to cross illegally into the United States by boat.

Since then, Akwesasne police have been searching for a 30-year-old local man, Casey Oakes, who was last seen operating the boat that was later found next to the bodies of the two migrant families.