One person is in custody after a boating crash in North Vancouver that left one child dead while another had to be airlifted to hospital.

North Vancouver RCMP say that around 6:30 p.m. on Saturday (June 7) police received multiple reports of a serious collision between a speed boat and two children on an inflatable tube being pulled by another boat, according to a release from Mounties Sunday. Police said it was alleged that a speed boat travelling off the waters of Cates Park hit the two children on the inflatable tube.

First responders at the scene provided life-saving measures to both children, but one was pronounced dead at the scene. The second child was airlifted to a local hospital in critical condition.

The operator of the boat that is alleged to have hit the inflatable tube was

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