QUEBEC -- As Barrie police launch snowmobile safety week, more details are unfolding about a tragic accident in Quebec.
One person is dead, and five others are missing after a group of snowmobilers plunged through the ice Tuesday night near Quebec's Lac-Saint-Jean.
Police say the victim died several hours after being admitted to hospital.
A search this morning of the area about 200 kilometres north of Quebec City involves provincial police and Canadian Armed Forces personnel, and police divers are expected to join the effort.
Sgt. Hugues Beaulieu of the provincial police said a group of foreign tourists and their guide were travelling by snowmobile between St-Henri-de-Taillon and Alma when the ice gave way.
One person was taken to hospital after being extracted from the water by other members of the group, who alerted authorities at around 7:30 p.m.
Rescuers found a second person who later died in hospital. Three other members of the group made it to shore, but five people remain missing.
