Manitoba RCMP say three children and two women are dead, and a man is in custody

WINNIPEG – RCMP say they are investigating the suspicious deaths of three children and two women in southern Manitoba.

Insp. Tim Arsenault said the 29-year-old man remains in custody and that he knows all of the victims, adding that there is no ongoing threat to public safety.

Arsenault says five bodies were found in three locations.

Police first encountered the scene around 7:30 a.m., when a woman's body was found in a ditch on the side of Highway 3 outside the city of Carman.

At 10 a.m., police said a witness pulled the bodies of three children from a burning car on Highway 248.

A short time later, Arsenault said police found the body of another woman inside a home in Carman.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published on February 11, 2024.

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