Exhumation underway in Quebec to find remains of Atikamekw baby missing for 50 years

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The Quebec Superior Court authorized the exhumation work in Joliette, Que., to find the remains of Laureanna Echaquan from Manawan.

In 1973, at just two months old, she was placed, alone, on a plane bound for a hospital to treat pneumonia.

She never returned home.

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