(ESSEX, ON) – On August 1, 2016 at approximately 8:45 p.m. members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Underwater Search and Recovery Unit (USRU) and the Essex County OPP Marine Unit located the Michigan woman they had been searching for since 4:30 p.m. on July 31, 2016.
The deceased has been identified as Laura DEL-BEL, age 56 of Farmington Hills Michigan.
ORIGINALS FROM/DE: ESSEX COUNTY DATE: AUGUST 1, 2016
SEARCH CONTINUES FOR OVERDUE SWIMMER – UPDATE
(ESSEX, ON) – Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) members including the Essex County OPP Marine Unit, the Essex County Emergency Response Team (ERT), the OPP K-9 Unit, the OPP Helicopter and the Underwater Search and Recovery Unit (USRU), remain at the scene of an overdue swimmer in Lake Erie, near the Colchester Harbour, Essex.
The search has been ongoing since Sunday at approximately 4:30 p.m. when a group of boaters contacted police advising one of the occupants was unaccounted for after leaving the boat to go swimming.
The USRU are using side scan sonar to search the waters in what has now turned into a recovery effort.
Missing is a 56 year old female from Michigan.
Further updates will be provided as they become available.
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