Remains not confirmed as missing girl

Police have confirmed that they've found human remains near the LaHave River just outside Bridgewater town limits in Conquerall Bank, but they will not say if it's the body of 12-year-old Karissa Boudreau who has been missing for nearly two weeks.
 
Sgt. John Collyer of the Bridgewater Police Service said authorities received a 911 call around 11:35 a.m. Saturday from a passerby who discovered the remains. Officers immediately secured the area and called in an RCMP forensic identification team who remained at the scene late Saturday night.
 
Highway 331 was closed to traffic while police completed their work at the scene.
 
Sgt. Collyer would not speculate if the body was that of the missing Bridgewater girl who has been at the centre of a search and large-scale police investigation since she was last scene on January 27. That evening around 5:30 p.m., she chose to wait in the car in the Sobeys parking lot outside the Bridgewater Mall while her mother went inside to buy a few items. When her mom returned about 15 minutes later, Karissa was gone.  
Police scoured the area twice from a helicopter without success and an RCMP dive team spent two days this past week probing the LaHave River from behind the mall as far downstream as Shipyards Landing. The area where the human remains were discovered is further down the river.
 
Sgt. Collyer said Karissa's family was notified about Saturday's discovery.
 
"The family has been told that human remains have been found, but at this point that's all they've been told," Sgt. Collyer said.
 
Police expect to release further information some time on Sunday.

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