Hunter’s death underlines need for better search and rescue equipment: Uqqummiut MLA – Nunatsiaq News
Mar 10, 2025
Mary Killiktee says volunteers forced to borrow snowmobiles, supplies to perform life-saving work
The death of a hunter near Clyde River underlines the need to provide search and rescue teams in small Nunavut communities more support and better resources to enhance their life-saving capabilities, says Uqqummiut MLA Mary Killiktee.
She spoke in the legislative assembly Thursday on what she said is a lack of equipment being provided to search and rescue teams.
Killiktee highlighted the urgency of on-the-land rescues by referring to the death last month of an elder she later identified as Jusua Kautuq Ilauq. He was hunting on the land outside of Clyde River when a blizzard struck overnight on Feb. 10. He was injured in a snowmobile crash after being divided from his fellow hunters.
