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Searchers have found the body of a 27-year-old woman who fell Friday morning from a rail bridge linking Kahnawake and Montreal.

“Her body was discovered by a Sûreté du Québec helicopter down-river by the Jacques Cartier Bridge,” the Kahnawake Mohawk Peacekeepers said in a statement Friday. “As this is an ongoing investigation, no other details are being released.”

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First responders from Montreal, Kahnawake and Châteauguay as well as the SQ were deployed in an effort to find the woman, who was from Kahnawake.

The incident occurred at about 5 a.m. Friday when one of three women walking on the bridge fell into the St. Lawrence River.

The body was discovered just after noon, David Lahache, a spokesperson for the Peacekeepers, told the Montreal Gazette.

He said the circumstances behind why the women were on the bridge and what caused one of them to fall have yet to be established.

Montreal fire department operations chief Ian Ritchie said that two of his service’s rescue boats were deployed in the operation while their counterparts in Kahnawake and Châteauguay were also combing their side of the river.

Ritchie noted the search was complicated by the speed of the current and the temperature of the water.