Two people found dead in life raft washed ashore near Nova Scotia’s Sable Island

An inflatable lifeboat containing two bodies washed up on an island nearly 300 kilometres southeast of Halifax on Wednesday and RCMP say they believe they are the remains of a British Columbia couple whose sailboat was reported missing nearly three weeks ago.The sailors, a 70-year-old man and a 60-year-old woman, and their vessel named Theros were reported missing one week after leaving Halifax Harbour en route to the Azores, an archipelago off the coast of Portugal.The couple last made contact through Garmin messaging to friends and family on June 13, from a position near Sable Island, said Joint Rescue Coordination Centre Halifax spokesman Lieutenant Commander Len Hickey. On June 18, their family reported they no longer had contact with the sailboat.