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Update: Missing senior found safe and sound, Nanaimo RCMP say

A missing 75-year-old man with dementia has been located and is safe and sound, Nanaimo RCMP say. Police and search-and-rescue volunteers were searching for Wayne Strilesky, who walked away from a Manhattan Way residence in north Nanaimo.
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A missing 75-year-old man with dementia has been located and is safe and sound, Nanaimo RCMP say.

Police and search-and-rescue volunteers were searching for Wayne Strilesky, who walked away from a Manhattan Way residence in north Nanaimo.

Strilesky, who has severe dementia and is hard of hearing and lives in Parksville, went into a forested area near a home he was visiting and did not return.