UPDATED: OPP Searching For Missing Swimmer
Last updated: Sunday August 11th, 3:15pm
Search efforts continue today to locate a missing swimmer in Lake Erie.
Police say that just before 8:00pm on August 10th, they received a report of a missing swimmer at the Leamington Pier at the end of Erie Street South in Leamington.
Two individuals entered the water, and only one was able to make it back to shore. A 46-year-old male remains missing.
The Leamington Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), the Canadian Coast Guard, and the Leamington Fire Services searched into the night Saturday.
The search resumed today by the Essex County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Marine Unit and the OPP Underwater Search and Recovery Unit (USRU).
The OPP is requesting that individuals avoid the search area at this time.