The RCMP in New Brunswick are asking for the public’s help in locating a 56-year-old woman reported missing from a special care home in Bouctouche.  

Police say Murielle Leger left the care home in which she was staying sometime after 5 p.m. Friday.

She was reported missing to police Monday afternoon.

Police and an RCMP helicopter have been searching the Bouctouche area since then.

Leger is described as a white woman with blond, shoulder-length hair. She is five-foot-one and weighs 115 pounds.

She was last seen wearing a black skidoo jacket with yellow stripes, jeans and brown boots.

Police say Leger has a medical condition and requires medication on a daily basis.

Anyone with any information is asked to call the RCMP at 1-888-506-RCMP (7267).