Two people died of exposure in separate incidents in Manitoba Saturday, RCMP say.
Selkirk RCMP received a call about an unresponsive man on a trail in Selkirk Park at about 11:40 a.m. in the small city about 35 kilometres north of Winnipeg.
RCMP and paramedics found a 52-year-old Selkirk man dead at the scene.
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Later that day, Gillam RCMP got a report of an unresponsive woman in an open area off Butnau Road, near the baseball diamonds, in Gillam.
A 48-year-old Fox Lake Cree Nation woman was found dead at the scene.
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Gillam is just over 1,000 kilometres north of Winnipeg.
RCMP don’t suspect there was a criminal element to either of the deaths but are awaiting autopsy results.
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