Halifax police say a man has died after he fell into the Halifax Harbour.
Police were called to the harbour, near the 1400 block of Lower Water Street, shortly after 4 p.m. Wednesday.
They say citizens managed to pull the man out of the water and into a boat.
“I ran over and I jumped in,” says witness Eric Richards. “There was somebody already in the water with the guy and, by the looks of him, he didn’t look like he was responding to anything.”
The 35-year-old man was taken to the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre where he was pronounced dead.
Police say it appears the man was sitting on the side of a boardwalk near Lower Water Street when he fell into the water.
An autopsy will be performed to determine a cause of death.
