Several news agencies are reporting that human remains found near Yonge Street and Highway 401 last month belong to Mariam Makhniashvili, the Toronto high-school student who disappeared in 2009.
Toronto police have scheduled a press conference this afternoon to provide more details.
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Police announced earlier this month that two people had found the remains on the banks of a ravine near the Don Valley Golf Course. The remains had been there for two to three years.
After the discovery of the remains, police spoke to Lela Tabidze, the mother of Makhniashvili, who was informed by police that a body had been found.
CBC's John Lancaster says police officers visited Tabidze's midtown home in Toronto Friday morning as well.
Makhniashvili was last seen on Sept. 14, 2009, when she left her home for Forest Hill Collegiate Institute with her brother.
The siblings decided to enter the school through different doors, and Mariam, then 17 years old, was not seen again. She had only been in Canada for a few months after moving to Canada from the Republic of Georgia.
In charges unrelated to Mariam's disappearance, her father, Vakhtang Makhniashvili, was sentenced in December to six years in prison after pleading guilty to stabbing three people in 2010.
მოკლედ იპოვეს გაუჩინარებული ქართველი ბავშვის ცხედარი. როგორც ჩანს გარემოებები ჯერ კიდევ უცნობია. ამ ეტაპზე მხოლოდ ისაა ცნობილი რომ სხეული მარიამ ეკუთვნის და დაახლოებით 3 წლის წინაა გარდაცვლილი (როგორც ჩანს დაკარგვისთანავე)
მოკლედ ეგეთი სამწუხარო ამბავი.
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