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WINNIPEG — RCMP say the bodies believed to be two British Columbia murder suspects have been found in northern Manitoba.

They say the bodies were found this morning in dense brush near the shoreline of the Nelson River.

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Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, from Port Alberni, B.C., were facing a second-degree murder charge in the death of Leonard Dyck, a university lecturer from Vancouver. Dyck’s body was discovered along a highway pullout two kilometres south of Dease Lake, B.C., on July 19.

The pair were also suspects in the shooting deaths of American tourist Chynna Deese and her Australian boyfriend, Lucas Fowler. Their bodies were found along a highway near Liard Hot Springs, B.C. on July 15.

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Assistant RCMP commissioner Jane MacLatchy said Wednesday the bodies of the fugitives were found within a kilometre of where several items linked to the two young men were found last week.