Ottawa Mountie's body found in Haiti

The body of a high-ranking RCMP officer from Ottawa has been found in the rubble of the United Nations headquarters in Port-au -Prince, Haiti, RCMP Commissioner Bill Elliott said Saturday.

Supt. Doug Coates was one of two more Canadians who were confirmed dead Saturday as a result of the Haitian earthquake, raising this country's death toll in the disaster to eight.

Coates, the senior Mountie in Haiti, was mentoring police officers; RCMP Sgt. Mark Gallagher of Nova Scotia was found dead earlier this week. Elliott called both men heroes.

Coates had been missing since the earthquake hit Hait on Tuesday. On Friday, his family held a news conference during which his eldest son, Luc, said the family had not given up hope.

"His strength and courage has been an inspiration to myself and my family," Luc said of his father. "He's a true role model who is my role model."

Luc was accompanied by his brother Mathieu and read a statement on behalf of his mother Lise and his sister Julie.

Denis Bellavance, a professor from Drummondville, Que., who was teaching at the university in Port-au-Prince, also died in the quake, his family said Saturday.

Other Canadian victims include: Montreal native Guillaume Siemienski, an employee working with the Canadian International Development Agency; Hélène Rivard, a CIDA consultant; nurse Yvonne Martin of Elmira, Ont.; and Montreal university professor Georges Anglade and his wife, Mireille, who were confirmed dead earlier in the week.

The number of Canadians still unaccounted for in Haiti has dropped to 1,362, down from 1,415, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said Saturday.