(Roxboro, N.C.) — Authorities are investigating a fatal boating accident that Wednesday night on Hyco Lake.

Investigators said one body was found after deputies received a report of an empty boat in the McGhee’s Mill area of Hyco Lake, near the Person-Caswell county line. Sheriff Dewey Jones said one person is confirmed dead and there could be a second victim.

The search for additional victims was suspended late Wednesday night, but Jones said the search would resume Thursday morning.

Authorities did not say what caused the boating accident.

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