Halifax police dog helps find missing senior in the woods

A Halifax police dog helped find a missing senior in the woods on Monday evening.

RCMP say a 75-year-old man had failed to return home after searching for his dog in a wooded area on Lawrencetown Road in Lawrencetown, N.S., just after 8 p.m.

Halifax District RCMP, Halifax Ground Search and Rescue and the Halifax Regional Police K9 Unit responded.

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It was police service dog Nico and his handler who initiated a track and found the man safe and sound.

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