Ten-year-old child dead after ATV crash in Yarmouth County

By CityNews Halifax Staff

RCMP in Yarmouth County say a ten-year-old child is dead following an ATV crash.

Mounties were responding to a report of a missing child just before 11:30 p.m. Saturday night.

They say investigators found the child about two hours later in Gavelton.

The ATV was also found nearby in a ditch along Plymouth Gentian Road.

According to a news release from the RCMP, the child was visiting the Canaan area with their family but had left a residence earlier in the evening for an all-terrain vehicle ride and hadn’t returned.

The investigation is ongoing, assisted by the Nova Scotia Medical Examiner Service.