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Missing man's body found after truck went into water near Terra Nova

Police say they have recovered the body of a 37-year-old man who went missing after his truck fell into a river in a remote area about 40 kilometres from the town of Terra Nova.

His body was found more than a kilometre downstream from where his truck went off a bridge, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Glovertown RCMP and the Bonavista Bay ground search and rescue team searched the shoreline Saturday while RCMP divers searched the submerged vehicle and surrounding area "until they ran out of daylight," according to a release sent Monday by police.

In the end, his body was found after an air search by Universal Helicopters.

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He was reported missing around 4 a.m. Sunday after the truck he was travelling in with three other men fell into the water "in a wilderness area" near Lake St. John, just north of the Bay du Nord Wilderness Reserve and west of Terra Nova National Park, according to the RCMP.

Three of the men managed to make it shore and were found early Sunday morning, police said.

Two of the men were taken to hospital in Clarenville with "non-life-threatening injuries."

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Submitted by Keith Dicks

Paul Hiscock and Keith Dicks were at a cabin in the area for the weekend when they went to check on the bridge.

"Stopped there to have a look at the bridge … and next thing I see something in the water and I said to Paul, 'There's something in the water, like a canoe or something.' And here it was a Tacoma pickup truck," said Dicks.

"Obviously someone was after losing their life there, but we didn't know nothing about it."

Dicks said he and Hiscock made their way across the bridge, where they happened upon the police and search crews in the area.

The bridge remains intact, Hiscock added.

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Eddy Kennedy/CBC

"There's just a wooden bridge, there's no rails on the side of it, and the night they went off it now, there was snow on it. I guess they slipped and went over the edge."

With files from Matt McCann

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