
Manitoba RCMP holding news conference on string of 'devastating' deaths, including 3 children
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Manitoba RCMP is set to give an update on a string of suspicious deaths reported over the weekend.
Manitoba RCMP is set to give an update on a string of suspicious deaths reported over the weekend.
Mounties are holding a news conference at 2 p.m. from RCMP headquarters. CTV News Winnipeg will live-stream the proceedings.
Officers are set to provide more information about their investigation into the five suspicious deaths in southwestern Manitoba – three children and two women.
Preliminary reports from police said the investigation began at around 7:30 a.m. on Sunday when officers responded to a report of a hit-and-run on Highway 3 near the southwest Manitoba town.
Mounties arrived to find a woman’s body in a nearby ditch. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
The incident continued later that morning, when RCMP were called to a vehicle on fire on Highway 248 in the R.M. of Cartier, Man. While officers were on the way, a witness pulled three young children from the burning car.
All three children were declared dead at the scene.