Two Kugluktuk hunters missing, presumed dead

Two Kugluktuk hunters are presumed dead after a search last week found their snowmobile, but no sign of the men.

Lenny Hikomak, 33, and Gregory Havioyak, 21, were last seen during the afternoon of Thursday, May 25, travelling in front of the community and heading back into town.

But they never came home, police were told later that afternoon.

The next day a search party recovered their snowmobile, near a patch of open water. Shortly afterwards the search was called off due to dangerously thin ice conditions.