Hours after asking the public for tips about a family in central Alberta that was reported missing, the RCMP announced all five missing people have been “located safe.”
Early Tuesday morning, police issued a news release saying they were contacted by a local school on Monday after a number of students from a Red Deer family, who were seen earlier in the day at the school, had gone missing. The circumstances surrounding their disappearance “were unknown under concerning,” police said.

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In all, police were looking for a Red Deer mother and her four children.
Shortly before 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, police announced all five were accounted for but did not say where they were found or what happened to them.
–With files from Phil Heidenreich, Global News
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