Coast Guard helicopter finds Nunavut hunters

This map distributed by the Joint Task Force Atlantic, shows the location shows Kangilo Fiord, close to where searchers found two missing hunters Sept. 24.

(Updated Sept. 24, 8:20 a.m.)

A helicopter crew from the Coast Guard vessel Des Groseilliers has found two overdue Nunavut hunters safe on the land, Joint Task Force Atlantic said on the morning of Sept. 24.

The air search and rescue operation got underway in Nunavut shortly before 10 p.m. Sept. 23., according to a Joint Task Force Atlantic message sent out on Twitter.

The JTFA said a Hercules plane, a Cormorant helicopter and the Des Groseillers icebreaker looked for the overdue hunters near Kangilo Fiord in Cumberland Sound.

#JRCCHalifax confirms that two hunters missing since yesterday have been found safe on land by @CCG_GCC Des Groseilliers’ Helicopter

— JTF Atlantic (@JTFAtlantic) September 24, 2015

No other details are immediately available.

This is the second JTFA air search this week: following a search and rescue operation Sept. 21 near Iqaluit, all nine crew members from the Atlantic Charger who abandoned ship and jumped into a life-raft were picked up late Sept. 21 by the Greenlandic fishing vessel Paamiut.

(More to come)