Two days right after she fell into the river above Niagara Falls, a 19-year-old Japanese woman remains to be missing and assumed dead. According to security video footage and eyewitness accounts, the student climbed on top of a railing on the Canadian side of the falls near a viewing area known as Table Rock to take photographs at around 8:30 p.m. Sunday night.
The Niagara Parks Police in Ontario reported:
“Two female students from the Toronto area were visiting the falls around Sunday night when one of them climbed onto a railing near the river’s edge and sat on a block pillar, with her legs straddling the railing.”
As she got down to climb back over the railing, she slipped and fell about 82 feet (25 meters) into the river above Horseshoe Falls, which usually straddles the U.S.-Canadian boundary and it is the widest and most viewed of the three cataracts which include Niagara Falls.
“The young woman stood up in what appeared to be an attempt to climb back over when she lost her balance and fell,” reads an announcement from Canadian park police.
The traveling friend, who had been close by when the incident occurred, called 911 and within 20 minutes, rescue crews have been searching the lower Niagara River with flashlights for the woman.
“I knew I should have said something when I saw her,” Michael Conner, 19, told the Toronto Star, right after seeing the actual incident. “It’s just a tragedy.”
Police identified the particular railing as a four-foot-high barrier with rock pillars between the metal railings as well as danger signs posted all along it.
Being an international search party scoured Niagara Falls Gorge for her body on Monday, they came up with the body of an unknown male instead. The body had not been thought to be connected to Sunday’s event and authorities have been working together with the coroner’s office to identify the man.
Late Monday, police stated they were scaling back their search. The body of the Japanese student has not yet been found and police mentioned they were coordinating with the Japanese consulate to inform her family of the tragedy. Sunday’s incident had been the third accident at Niagara Falls in the past two years.
Earlier Sunday morning, in an unrelated event, a 27-year-old male from Ontario rose over the safety wall north of the Rainbow Bridge and fell 20 feet (6 meters) into the Niagara River gorge, breaking his leg. Every year between 20 and 25 people commit suicide at the Niagara Falls.
Based on records, just one person is reported to have survived an accidental drop over Niagara Falls – Roger Woodward in 1960.
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