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The two young Canadians hunted for more than two weeks for a triple murder committed suicide, police said Monday, August 12 after body autopsies found last week in the province of Manitoba.
The two suspects found dead last week have committed suicide, according to Canadian police, who now analyze the two weapons found near their bodies to determine if they are those used in the three homicides for which these two suspects were wanted . These weapons were in any case used by these two teenagers to commit suicide.
These two 18-year-old boyfriends are accused of killing, in mid-July, a young couple of Australian-American tourists aged 23 and 24. They are also accused of murdering a 64-year-old botany professor.
They then stole his car and then traveled more than 3,000 km into the Canadian North, in the state of Manitoba. It was there, in a very wild and inhospitable area of 11,000 km2, that research was concentrated. A large manhunt that kept the country in suspense for two weeks.
To find the fugitives and rake the area, the Canadian authorities had not skimped on the means: massive deployment of police, heavily armed and supported by tracking dogs, drones and even army aircraft thermal camera.
Finally, the two bodies were found Wednesday in a thicket a few kilometers from their burnt car. The death of the suspects obviously complicates the investigation. The motive for this triple homicide is still totally unknown.