'It's unlike him': Searchers hunt for man missing from Duck Mountain logging camp

A search is underway in western Manitoba for an employee last seen Monday walking away from a logging camp in Duck Mountain Provincial Park, about 330 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg.

RCMP say Pine Creek resident Mark Anthony McKelvey, 36, was seen leaving camp on foot at about 8 a.m. CT Monday. His coworkers searched the area, about 25 kilometres northwest of Roblin, but were unable to find him.

"[It's] devastating, [we're] worried, we don't know if he's alive or if he's, you know, laying there dead somewhere," said Bobby-Sue McKelvey, Mark's niece.

Bobby-Sue McKelvey said her uncle had complained of feeling dizzy and faint the morning he went missing.

"He told the workers he didn't feel good that morning, and his brother actually works up there with him, too," she said. "He went wandering into the bush and nobody has seen him since."

An RCMP search team, workers with Manitoba Sustainable Development and employees of the logging company have continued the search. 

"They said the bushes are so thick that they couldn't take quads in there," said McKelvey. "It's not like him to go missing like this."

McKelvey is five feet, seven inches tall and weighs about 165 pounds. He has brown eyes, short black hair and was last see wearing a black T-shirt, blue jeans and tan work boots. His niece said he doesn't have a medical condition she's aware of other than an allergy to bees.

She and other family members who are in Winnipeg plan to travel to the area Wednesday if he isn't found by Tuesday night. Any help people can provide is appreciated, Bobby-Sue McKelvey said.

"It's unlike him and whatever we can do or whatever they can do to help, they're welcome. Anyone who wants to help in the search, just get ahold of the police," she said. 

Anyone with information is asked to contact RCMP at 204-937-2164 or  Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

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