Provincial police have concluded their search into a London man who went missing while swimming in Lake Erie last week.
On August 31, Ontario Provincial Police in Elgin were notified about a missing 64-year-old man who was a passenger on a 25-foot sailboat. The man had gone for a swim in the lake near Port Stanley. Police were contacted after he failed to return to the boat.
On Thursday, OPP confirmed they had found the remains of the London man, whose identity is not being released by police, about 6.5 kilometres east of the location where he was last seen.
“The OPP Elgin Detachment would like to thank the members of the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (Trenton), Canadian Coast Guard and the Central Elgin Fire Department for their invaluable assistance with the search,” read a statement from OPP.
Members of the OPP Aviation Services and the OPP Underwater Search and Recovery Unit assisted in the search effort for the man.