The RCMP logo is seen outside Royal Canadian Mounted Police “E” Division Headquarters, in Surrey, B.C., on April 13, 2018. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck)
A six-year-old girl was found dead Saturday morning after going missing from her home at Poplar River First Nation.
Manitoba RCMP received a report just before 6 a.m. that the child had disappeared after her father woke to find the front door wide open and his daughter nowhere inside the residence.
Officers, the local fire department, family, community members and search and rescue volunteers launched an immediate search. Community boats were deployed on the water, and the band used a drone to assist in the effort.
At 10:30 a.m., the girl was found on the south side of the Nanowin River and pronounced deceased.
Poplar River RCMP continue to investigate
