84-year-old found alive 4 days after getting lost picking berries

An elderly Manitoba woman who went out to pick berries and vanished without a trace for four days was found alive Sunday night and was on her way to hospital, her daughter says.

Roxanne Byman told CBC News late Sunday her mother, Mary Byman, 84, was located safe after the fruitless conclusion of a full-day search for herinvolving dozens of volunteers and RCMP.

"I don't ever need a Christmas present ever again," Roxanne said in a brief telephone interview. "I'm just so happy."

Some volunteer searchers from Dauphin who were camping after helping out for the day were firing some type of gun and heard a voice cry out"help me," said Roxanne.

• 'As if she disappeared into thin air': Search continues for woman, 84, who went missing picking berries

They found Mary soon after, she said. Mary was about two kilometres from where she disappeared in southeastern ManitobaWednesday afternoon, from a spot in the woods she had been to dozens of times before.

It's not far from her home in Menisino, about 125 kilometres southeast of Winnipeg. Searchers had focused their efforts on the Spur Woods area, south of Provincial Road 201 and between the communities ofMenisino andPiney.

"She's obviously made of some strong stuff," Roxanne said.

Further details about Mary's health and what happened to her would be forthcoming, she said.