Alaska
Body of missing snowmachiner found near Kotzebue
KOTZEBUE, Alaska (KTUU) – A younger Ambler man who went lacking on Jan. 16 has been discovered lifeless close to Kotzebue, Alaska State Troopers say.
In response to a dispatch from troopers, searchers discovered the physique of 18-year-old Thomas Brown round 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday over 10 miles south of Kotzebue.
Brown and a companion, 18-year-old Josiah Poll of Selawik, had been reported lacking on Jan. 16 after they advised associates they have been leaving from Kotzebue and presumably heading towards Noorvik.
Search groups in a non-public aircraft discovered Poll roughly 28 miles south of Kotzebue on Jan. 20. Troopers wrote that Poll suffered from “extreme frostbite” and was taken to Kotzebue the day he was discovered, earlier than being taken to Anchorage for additional medical remedy.
Troopers wrote that searchers in a North Slope Borough helicopter noticed Brown’s stays close to Cape Blossom, which is on the Baldwin Peninsula on the coast of Kotzebue Sound in Northwest Alaska.
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