*Updated** RCMP locate missing Eskasoni woman

Shanara Eden Denny

**Updated at 9:40 a.m.**

RCMP say Shanara Eden Denny, who was reported missing on Tuesday, has been located and is safe.

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Eskasoni RCMP are asking for help to locate a missing woman.

Police say 20-year-old Shanara Eden Denny called her family around 9:30 p.m. on Sunday and said she was in Toronto planning to hitchhike back to Eskasoni.

She has not been heard from since.

Denny is described as an Indigenous woman, standing 5'9" and around 140 lbs, with shoulder length black hair, and brown eyes.

When she was last seen by family, she was wearing a black sweater with stripes, black pants and black shoes, carrying a black backpack, and wearing dark sunglasses.