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Updated: Both missing hunters in the Onaping area have been found, says provincial police

Woman, 63, found in good health this afteroon
2020-08-01 ATV Patrol
(OPP photo)

Updated at 1:28 pm.

Provincial police said the 63-year-old woman missing from the Onaping Lake Lodge areahas been found safe.

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A 57-year-old man has been found, but a 63-year-old woman is still missing this morning after provincial police responded to a missing persons report after two people left the Onaping Lake Lodge on Sept. 27 to go hunting.

Ontario Provincial Police say the two left the lodge in an UTV (Utility Vehicle, more commonly known as a side-by-side) around 1 p.m. They did not return to the lodge that evening.

With the assistance of members from the Nipissing West OPP Emergency Response Team, Snowmobile-ATV-Vessel-Enforcement (S.A.V.E.) unit, OPP helicopter and Ministry of Natural Recourse, the man was located with the UTV about 26 hours later, with no injuries.

However, the two missing people had separated that evening and the woman is still missing.

Joint Rescue Coo-rdination Centre (JRCC) assisted with the search during the evening without any success.

The public can expect to see a large police presence in the Onaping Lake area as the OPP continue the search for the missing female. Further information will be released as it becomes available.