After killing three people and burning a camper in British Columbia, the two teenagers headed east, the police say. Then the road ran out.

In one of Canada’s most isolated places linked by road, on the edge of the Hudson Bay lowlands in Manitoba, heavily armed officers with dogs, drones, helicopters and an armored vehicle are hunting for the two suspects in bush, swamp and forest.

It is an optimal place to hide — and a difficult place to survive.

[On Aug. 7, police said they found the bodies of murder suspects Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky in the wilderness of Manitoba.]

The men, Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, are suspected of killing a Vancouver botanist and a young couple who were traveling the country. Now, the police believe, the suspects are somewhere near the remote community of Gillam, Manitoba.