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A girl who had been held in captivity against her will for four days in a secluded cabin in northern Saskatchewan was rescued by Saskatchewan RCMP officers.

According to RCMP in a news release, officers received a report about a girl being held captive in a secluded cabin across Lac Ile a la Crosse, roughly 10 kilometres from the village of Ile a la Crosse, shortly after 6 p.m. on Thursday.

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The initial report indicated that an adult man was allegedly responsible for the girl’s confinement and that he had temporarily left the cabin.

Officers then made several patrols in an attempt to locate the man, but were unsuccessful, while other officers began strategizing how to safely travel across the lake to the cabin.

With the lake still covered in slush, RCMP decided the safest way to reach the cabin would be by air, so the army and the Saskatchewan Emergency Response Team (ERT) were called in to assist.