Calgary woman killed in B.C. rafting accident

Posted Jun 25, 2012 8:50 pm.

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A Calgary woman has been identified as the victim of a rafting accident in the Kicking Horse River, near Golden, B.C..

Fifty-year-old Mary Patricia Thibault was with about 40 people in a commercial whitewater rafting operation on Saturday when the raft she was in overturned.

Thibault, seven other passengers and their guide were all thrown into the river.

Everyone was rescued quickly, but Thibault couldn’t be revived.

The B.C. coroners service and the RCMP are investigating.

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