Missing Student: Search for Hassoun Choui

0:00It's March 28th. This is Canada News Today, AI-powered stories from your city. An 18-year-old student named Hassoon Choi went missing Thursday afternoon after falling through ice into Montreal's fast-moving Rivier days. Prairies near the Jacques Bazaard Bridge. He vanished around 2.35 pm while out with a friend. And despite two days of intense searches by boat, drone, and shoreline teams, there's been no sign of him yet. The other team, a 17-year-old believed to be his friend, got pulled from the river that day and rushed to the hospital in critical condition. Police say it was a tragic accident, with no criminal involvement, just two young guys in the wrong spot at the wrong time. The news hit hard in the stage in Navierve community, and at Chewese C-E-G-P, Jorald Gaudin School, where they've rode out counseling for students and staff. A quick online fundraiser for the family already pulled in over $3,000, showing how folks are rallying around them. Saturday morning, search crews shifted downstream to a small bay, figuring the strong currents

1:03swept him under thick ice there. Now divers are cutting a big hole to dive in, while notical teams keep scanning from boats. It's risky with the cold water, unstable flows, and freezing temps keeping things dangerous. Odds of survival are slim after all this time and near freezing water, so the focus stays on locating him to give the family some closure no matter. Odds of that gets.