VANCOUVER ISLAND, British Columbia — A bus carrying 10 students and two teachers that had been missing here was found on Monday.

The group, which was from Tempo School in Edmonton, left on a chartered bus on Sunday to the coastal town of Bamfield, which is home to a marine sciences research station. The bus was expected to arrive in Bamfield, which is reachable only by logging roads, on Sunday evening but the driver took a wrong turn because of a missing bridge and got stuck, CBC News reports.

That part of Vancouver Island does not have consistent cell phone service, so parents and school officials didn't learn until late Monday morning that the students hadn't shown up at their destination.

"Parents were very anxious. It was not good," Tempo School headmaster Peter Mitchell told CBC News. "But the relief after anxiety? It's sweet."

The news that the bus had been found came late Monday afternoon when school officials got a phone call from someone with a logging company near Lake Cowichan, Mitchell added. The bus was pulled out and students resumed their trip.

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