RCMP investigating suspicious death of boy, 2, who died at Manitoba nursing station

Manitoba RCMP are investigating the death of a two-year-old boy at Red Sucker Lake First Nation.

Police said they were called to the local nursing station Saturday with a report of a child in medical distress.

The boy died at the nursing station despite efforts to give him medical assistance. Police say the death is being considered suspicious.

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Officers from the Island Lake detachment continue to investigate, along with the RCMP’s major crimes services and forensic identification unit.

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