
Local rangers join search for missing 6-year-old boy in Shamattawa
CBC
A large-scale search in Shamattawa First Nation for a six year-old-boy who has been missing for more than a day will continue at daybreak Friday, RCMP said Thursday night.
The boy, Johnson Redhead, attended a breakfast program at the school in the northeastern Manitoba First Nation until 9 a.m. on Wednesday, but didn't show up in class after that, RCMP said in a Thursday afternoon news release.
"Six years old … is too young to be going missing," RCMP Sgt. Paul Manaigre told CBC Thursday night. "We need to know where he is," said Manaigre.
He said searchers "do have temperatures working in our favour" — temperatures were not expected to drop lower than the mid-teens overnight.
While the search was pausing for the night, Manaigre said it would resume Friday.
"Hopefully we're going to get some kind of clues tomorrow and hopefully we get a positive outcome."
Police were contacted about Johnson's disappearance around 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Community members and RCMP officers immediately started a search, combing

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