RCMP recovers missing toddler in northern Alberta field incident
Tuesday, May 13, 2025, 5:21 pm
In northern Alberta, frantic RCMP efforts – involving 200 volunteers, helicopters, drones, and ATVs – finally located a missing two‐year‐old boy who, according to police, simply fell asleep in a field. The community’s heart-stopping panic has now ended with an almost anticlimactic twist.
A sweeping night-long search was triggered Sunday night when police were called by the toddler’s family after they had searched the property for him
It took the efforts of 200 local volunteers, a helicopter, drones and ATVs to track down a missing two-year-old boy in the pitch-black night of Alberta's Peace Country.
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