Two dead in Manitoba after RCMP believe tornado threw their vehicle into a field
Posted August 8, 2020 10:30 am.
Last Updated August 8, 2020 11:58 am.
VIRDEN, Man. – RCMP say a man and a woman are dead after a tornado touched down at a farm in western Manitoba on Friday evening and carried a vehicle they were believed to have been in over a kilometre.
A man who was in a second vehicle that was also thrown has survived with serious injuries.
Police say they arrived at the farm near Highway 83 south of Virden shortly after 8 p.m., where they say the property was extensively damaged and two vehicles had been thrown into a nearby field.
A search of the first vehicle, found closer to the highway, located a 54-year-old man from the Sioux Valley Dakota First Nation, who was taken to hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries.
Officers located the second vehicle over a kilometre away, and they along with other first responders found the bodies of a man and a woman, who were both 18 and from Melita, Man.
Officers along with EMS continued to search the area for other possible victims but none were located.
