A body recovered from the Fraser River by Vancouver police Thursday afternoon is not that of a Burnaby woman whose husband and son were found dead by the river in May.
Police were notified of the body by a tugboat operator who found it in a log boom on the north arm of the Fraser off the end of Kerr Street just west of Burnaby.
The Vancouver Police Department's marine unit recovered the body and contacted the coroner at about 4:35 p.m., according to B.C. Coroners Service spokesperson Barb McLintock.
An investigation into the body’s identity and cause of death is still in the preliminary stages, she told the NOW, but it appears to be that of a young adult male who has probably been dead for weeks.
The body was recovered just upstream from Mitchell Island, where the submerged car of a missing Burnaby family was found on May 9.
The father, Ming Dong Xu, and four-year-old son, Garrick, were found dead at the scene, but the mother, Yu Ling Zhang, was never found.
Foul play was not suspected, according to police.
“We think we know who it is,” McLintock said of the body recovered Thursday, “but it’s not at all related to that case.”
