RCMP divers joining manhunt in northern Manitoba

The RCMP says that their underwater dive team is arriving in Gillam, Man. this evening to aid in the search for murder suspects.

The Manitoba RCMP's Underwater Recovery Team (URT) will be arriving in Gillam Saturday, August 3.

UPDATE: RCMP locate boat on Nelson River shore as manhunt continues near Gillam

The RCMP says divers will begin to search a section of the Nelson River on Sunday, August 4.

On Wednesday, July 31, the Manitoba RCMP held a press conference saying that while the search was not over, they would be significantly "scaling down" the search in the Gillam area.

The RCMP will not comment on what prompted the call for the dive team to join the search. On Friday RCMP communications sent out an email to media saying there would be no updates over the weekend involving the case "unless there are significant new developments in the ongoing search of northern Manitoba for the BC homicide suspects."

In a press release Saturday evening alerting media to the dive team's arrival the RCMP says "No further specific information will be provided on the deployment of the URT to the area." The RCMP will not be allowing media near the dive site.

Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, have been charged with the murder of a Vancouver, BC professor, and are suspects in the murders of two tourists. The homicides all occurred in remote northern BC locations.

There have been no confirmed sightings of the two suspects in 12 days.