27 Nov 2014

Dive team find body of missing boatie

5:03 pm on 27 November 2014

A police dive team has located the body of a man missing since the boat he was in sank in Lake Rotorua yesterday.

William Van Der Voort, 24, of Rotorua, was on the boat with four other men, who were rescued.

A local resident went out in his own boat and managed to rescue four men who were taken to Rotorua Hospital and treated for hypothermia.

Police said none of the men were wearing lifejackets and inquiries are continuing.

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