One dead, five missing as snowmobile falls through ice in Canada
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A Canadian guide died and five French tourists were missing after at least one snowmobile plunged through ice in northern Quebec, police said Tuesday.

The group were riding close to where a river exits the Saint-Jean lake, and were outside the approved area for snowmobiles, police spokesman Hugues Beaulieu told AFP.

Nine people, including the guide, were on the trip on Tuesday evening when the ice broke underneath them.

Police said they were alerted by two of the tourists who had rescued a third tourist from the freezing water.

The 42-year-old guide was pulled out by emergency response teams and taken to hospital, but he died overnight, Beaulieu said, adding "five French tourists are still missing."

The police and army were searching the area on Wednesday, assisted by divers.

"This sector was not part of a marked trail, they were off-piste," said the spokesman.