RCMP investigating suspicious death in Pont-Landry, N.B.

RCMP are investigating the suspicious death of a 49-year-old woman in a town approximately 85 kilometres northeast of Miramichi.

Police say officers were called to Chemin W Gautreau in Pont-Landry at approximately 2 p.m. for reports of a dead woman.

The woman’s body had been found by a passerby.

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RCMP say an autopsy will be conducted on Friday to help determine the exact cause of death.

Anyone with information on the death is asked to call police at 1-888-506-7267 or to contact Crime Stoppers.