TWILLINGATE, Newfoundland, July 19 (UPI) -- Searchers in Canada are looking for a man presumed drowned off Newfoundland after the body of two boys and another man were recovered, authorities said.
The five people had left the coastal town of Twillingate Saturday on a pleasure cruise in a 16-foot open boat, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported.
Coast guard vessels and a helicopter joined dozens of local boats in the search, the CBC said.
The body of a boy who had been wearing a life jacket was found Sunday morning and the bodies of his brother and another man were found hours later.
The adults were not related to the boys, ages 10 and 13, but were close family friends, search and rescue officials said.
"This is devastation," Twillingate Mayor Gord Noseworthy said. "The population is only 3,000 people. This would be devastation for 100,000 people."
Noseworthy said he knew the boys well.
"They're on these wharfs six, seven days a week. You (know) them like your own," he said.
Searchers said they were concentrating on an area where a cooler, a gas can and some debris had been found, the CBC reported.
