** UPDATE — Big River RCMP report Laveda Martel has been found safe.

 

Big River RCMP are asking for public assistance in tracking down a missing 15-year-old aboriginal girl.

Laveda Martel was last seen in Prince Albert, and is described as 5’7”, slim, with black hair.

She usually wears black, an RCMP news release states.

She was reported missing on Feb. 8.

The RCMP was unable to comment on when she was last seen, or why the release wasn’t issued until Tuesday.