Missing Waterloo-area teens found safe

TORONTO – A group of 15 teenagers who went missing while on a hiking trip near Tobermory, Ont. have been found safe, according to police.

Ontario Provincial Police said the 16- and 17-year-olds went missing after becoming separated from the main group in Bruce Peninsula National Park.

The group was a part of an Algonquin hiking experience organized by Saint David Catholic Secondary School in Waterloo.

Provincial police officers from the Bruce Peninsula detachment and Emergency Response Team spent much of the night searching the area.

But police said the group was found just after 5:30 a.m. this morning near a cabin on the Bruce trail.

The teens are reported to be OK but cold. Police had said earlier that the emphasis of the trip was on survival and outback camping.

-with files from The Canadian Press