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Searchers redouble efforts to locate Red Deer man swept away in North Thompson River
KAMLOOPS — Searchers have not given up their desperate quest to locate an Alberta man who was swept away in the fast-flowing North Thompson River last week.
Stan Cappis and a friend were enjoying the river with several young people Friday afternoon (July 12) near the Tournament Capital Ranch in Rayleigh when two of the younger people stepped off of a sandbar and started to be carried downstream.
Staff Sgt. Janelle Shoihet of Kamloops RCMP says the 50-year-old Red Deer resident and his friend jumped in to rescue the two, but only three of the four made it to shore.
“Stan’s friend and the youths were able to get to the shore however Stan was swept away,” said Shoihet in a news release. “He was last seen rounding the bend of the river.”