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Winnipeg police find 94-year-old who was missing overnight

Bessie Johnson, 94, was missing overnight in cold temperatures in Winnipeg. Winnipeg police handout / Global News

WINNIPEG – Police say 94-year-old Bessie Johnson, who went missing Sunday afternoon, has been found.

Johnson was gone overnight as temperatures dropped to -13 C with snow on the ground in Winnipeg.

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Johnson, four-foot-10 and 90 to 95 pounds, with a thin build and short, grey hair, uses a cane. She had been seen at 4 p.m. walking east over the Chief Peguis Bridge.

Police sent out a news release just before 9:30 a.m. Monday saying she’d been found.

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