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RCMP explain confusion over initial emergency alert
Questions are being raised about an emergency alert issued Sunday night that caused confusion and for some, panic in the province.
Around 8:45 p.m., RCMP sent out a SaskAlert advising residents to ‘avoid the community’, but it didn’t specify which one. It also wasn’t immediately clear what crime had been committed but advised the public to ‘not leave a secure location.’
It wasn’t until half an hour later, that the SaskAlert was reissued and the public was told about the search for a suspect involved in a shooting on James Smith Cree Nation.
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