CTVNews.ca Staff
Published Friday, Aug. 24, 2012 5:37PM EDT
Last Updated Friday, Aug. 24, 2012 8:46PM EDT
A recently married woman who wanted to be photographed one more time in her wedding dress was killed during the photo shoot Friday, after she was swept away in a Quebec river.
Quebec provincial police initially told reporters that the woman had fallen off a cliff and into a waterfall in Rawdon, Que. They also said the woman was about to be married and had chosen the waterfall as the backdrop for her wedding photos.
Police later corrected themselves to say the woman had only dipped her toes in river during the photo shoot, but her wedding dress became soaked with water, dragging her down.
She then slipped and was carried away by the Ouareau River, they said.
The photographer and another witness tried to save her, according to police, but the dress was too heavy and they couldn’t pull her out of the water.
A diver found her body a few hours later.
The 30-year-old woman was from the Montreal-area suburb of Laval, police said. She was married on June 9.
With files from The Canadian Press
