SECOND SNOWMOBILER DIES, AFTER GOING THROUGH ICE

RAMARA TOWNSHIP Police have identified a second snowmobiler who died Sunday in a separate accident, this time after going through the ice.

Provincial police at Orillia are investigating an incident where two snowmobilers went into the water on Lake Simcoe in the Township of Ramara.

On February 16, at 4:30 a.m. Orillia OPP were dispatched to a call reporting hearing voices screaming for help on Lake Simcoe at the area known as The Narrows.

OPP officers arrived on the scene and could hear the men screaming for help.

Ramara and Orillia firefighters attended the scene and were able to rescue one of the stranded men who was taken hospital in Orillia.

The other male was not recovered.

The OPP Under Water Search and Recovery Unit (USRU) and the OPP Helicopter (C-FOPP) were called in to assist locating the other snowmobiler.

Twelve hours later, at 4:45 p.m. divers recovered the body of the missing snowmobiler.

Police have identified the man as James Tahir, 35.

His body is being be held for a post mortem examination at the‎ Office of the Chief Coroner and Ontario Forensic Pathology Services (OCC-OFPS) in Toronto.

Also on Sunday, a 14-year-old died in Kearney, north of Huntsville, after his snowmobile left the trail and hit a tree.

A second snowmobile fatality Sunday claimed the life of an Orillia man who went through The Narrows in Ramara Township.