PERTH-ANDOVER, NB–The search for a 73-year-old woman reported
missing on the weekend in Northern New Brunswick is expected to be scaled back today.

RCMP Sergeant Marc Violette says volunteer searchers have run out of places to look for Martha Kelly of Perth-Andover.

Violette says five search teams with 150 volunteers have already covered more than 250 hectares since the search started Saturday near Kelly’s apartment in Perth-Andover.

A cormorant military search and rescue helicopter was called in on Sunday and a fixed-wing aircraft joined the search Monday.

As well, volunteers on atvs have searched along 800 kilometres of trails, woods roads and abandoned railway lines.