Human remains of Inuk woman missing for 5 years found in Ottawa apartment building

Ottawa: The Ottawa police said that a human remains found in the under-construction Vanier apartment building are of a missing Inuk woman. The woman was last seen in Ottawa East five years ago.

On September 28, workers working in the three-storey building on Deschamps Avenue found the human remains.

On September 29, a statement was issued by the police that when the work of digging the land for this building was being done, the workers found something like a human remains here. The Ottawa Police Service Homicide Unit on Sunday identified the human cage as Mary Papatsi.

Papatsi was 39 years old when she went missing in 2017. Papatsi was last seen alive on April 27, 2017, in vanier area, police said.

The police issued a statement and shared their grief with the family and relatives of the papacy.

In July 2017, the major crime unit had taken over the probe as investigators were treating the disappearance of papatsi as a suspect, police said. She was originally from Nunavut and then moved to Ottawa. She was a mother of 10 children.