Body pulled from car found at the bottom of Saint-François River

A car belonging to a former Pierreville, Que., city councillor who has been missing for 11 years was found in the Saint-François River Friday.

A body has been recovered from a car that was found Friday in the Saint-François River in Quebec.

The car belonged to Yvon Guévin, a former city councillor from Pierreville, Que. who has been missing for 11 years.

The Canadian Press reported Saturday that the body was pulled from the vehicle and will be formally identified by the coroner’s office. Forensic technicians will analyze the vehicle, and the Sûreté du Québec is conducting an investigation to determine how the car ended up in the water.

On Friday, Guévin’s family told Noovo Info that they felt relieved after the car was found because it might finally provide some answers after his mysterious disappearance in July 2014 at age 75.

“Life has gone on for 11 years. But I think that to really find closure, to mourn and to come to terms with it, we really hoped to find the vehicle,” his daughter, Dominique Guévin, told Noovo Info.

American and Australian divers found the vehicle more than 11 metres below the surface of the river. It took the team two days to find the vehicle after compiling a list of bodies of water near his home and using sonar. Their instruments noticed a strange formation in the river and confirmed what they saw was indeed a vehicle using an ultrasound.

With files from Noovo Info and The Canadian Press