Crews search Grand Bend for missing 17-year-old swimmer

Published Thursday July 24th, 2008

THE CANADIAN PRESS

GRAND BEND, Ont. - Rescue crews were searching late Wednesday night for a 17-year-old male who went missing while swimming in Lake Huron.

Provincial police were called around 5 p.m. to a beach in Grand Bend after a Stratford youth disappeared.

The search included the length of the beach, with police and emergency workers looking for the youth.

The U.S. Coast Guard also dispatched a helicopter to help look.

Police planned to search the beach overnight and were expecting a helicopter and divers to arrive by morning to continue the search.

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