The Canadian Press
TORONTO–More than a dozen Toronto students on an ill-fated high school trip to Algonquin Park are still making their way back home after the death of a classmate who disappeared while swimming in a lake.
Ontario Provincial Police say search and rescue divers pulled the body of 15-year-old Jeremiah Perry out of Big Trout Lake just before 3:30 p.m. Wednesday after scouring the waters all day.
A spokeswoman for the Toronto District School Board, Shari Schwartz-Maltz, says the students were in a remote area of the park that is only accessible by a day-long canoe trip.
She says most of the students were evacuated by boat plane but 13 students were left behind and had to canoe back to a meeting point when it became too dark to shuttle people by air.
Boran Balci, a 17-year-old student who arrived home yesterday morning, says he felt what he thinks were Perry’s hands tugging at his feet when the teen first went missing.
