A six-year-old boy who had been missing in a northeastern Manitoba First Nation since Wednesday has been found dead, Manitoba RCMP say.

A six-year-old boy from northeastern Manitoba who had been missing since last Wednesday has been found dead. Shamattawa RCMP say Johnson Redhead was found dead in a marshy area around 7:45 p.m. Sunday. RCMP say Redhead’s body was found about 3.5 kilometres from his school on the remote First Nation.

The search for a missing non-verbal six-year-old boy in Shamattawa First Nation continues this weekend, as additional resources arrived in the northeastern Manitoba community Saturday.

The search continues in Shamattawa First Nation for a six-year-old boy missing since Wednesday. Johnson Redhead, who is non-verbal, was last seen at his school breakfast program in the fly-in community 1,200 kilometres north of Winnipeg, say RCMP.