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Public Help Sought in Search for Missing Pair
Police and community searchers are checking the river and abandoned buildings after video showed only one of the two entering the site.
The Thunder Bay Police Service is intensifying the search for Ashlynn Bottle, 23, and Nodin Skunk, 25, who disappeared from the Pool 8 grain elevator on April 26.
Surveillance video from April 26 shows Bottle and Skunk entering the Syndicate Avenue South property with a third individual around 4:30 p.m., who was recorded leaving at 5:30 p.m. without the pair.
Thunder Bay Fire Rescue and criminal investigators conducted exhaustive searches using drones to inspect silos and every building on the property, yet have not located the missing individuals.
Missing person coordinator Jeff Saunders indicated a thorough underwater search of the Kaministiquia River is the next step, with the Ontario Provincial Police providing specialized support from Orillia.
Mishkeegogamang First Nation Chief Merle Loon established a command centre at the Prince Arthur Hotel, appealing to the public for video footage from April 26 between 6:30 and 9 p.m. to help locate the missing family members.