Teen missing after boat overturned

By News Staff

Posted Jul 6, 2013 10:54:14 AM.

This article is more than 5 years old.

RCMP are looking for a missing teenager in Cape Breton after a wooden boat he was in took on water and overturned.

RCMP say the boat carrying five teens overturned in the Ingonish Harbour at 2:30 this morning. All of the teens, ranging in age from 14 to 18, fell into the water.

Four of the five teens managed to make the 300 metre swim to shore, while a 14-year-old never arrived. Police are still looking for the young man who was last seen by his friends in the water.

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