Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are on the look out for a nine-year-old boy who fell in Lake Erie on Saturday evening.

Three children were by the shoreline of the lake close to Peacock Point in Nanticoke when two fell through the ice.

Const. Rodney Leclair with the Haldimand County OPP detachment told the Star one of the children, an eight-year-old boy, has since been rescued.

Search efforts including helicopters, their underwater search team, and the Haldimand County fire department were ongoing since about 4:30 p.m., when the call about the boys came in. Searches are pausing overnight and will resume Sunday morning.