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WORLD NEWS Wednesday 24 July 2019

Missing men now suspects in Canada murders

By ROB GILLIES sidered dangerous and
Associated Press urged the public not to ap-
TORONTO (AP) — Two proach them and to call
young men thought miss- 911. Police released surveil-
ing are now suspects in the lance photos of the two in
murders of an American Saskatchewan.
woman and her Australian The separate discoveries of
boyfriend as well as the three bodies and a burning
death of another man in car with missing occupants
northern British Columbia, shook rural northern British
Canadian police said Tues- Columbia. Murders are rare
day. in the remote region.
The Royal Mounted Police Police had said Monday
had said Monday they the two were traveling to
were searching for 19-year- Whitehorse in the Yukon to
old Kam McLeod and look for work and had not
18-year-old Bryer Schme- been in contact with their
gelsky, whose burning car families for the past few
had been discovered south days.
of Dease Lake. Police said Tuesday they
During that investigation, were still working to iden-
they found the body of an Security camera images recorded in Saskatchewan of Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, tify the male body that was
unidentified man roughly 18, are displayed as Royal Canadian Mounted Police Assistant Commissioner Kevin Hackett found nearby their burned-
a mile (about 2 kilometers) speaks during a news conference in Surrey, British Columbia, on Tuesday, July 23, 2019. out vehicle, but said he ap-
from the car. Associated Press peared to be in his 50s or
It’s about 300 miles (500 cas Fowler were found shot travelling in northern Sas- the Dease Lake suspicious 60s. They released a sketch
kilometers) along remote dead over a week ago. katchewan in a grey 2011 death and the double ho- of the man, with a heavy
highways from the spot RCMP Sgt. Janelle Shoihet Toyota Rav 4. micide of Lucas Fowler and build with a grey beard
where 24-year-old Ameri- said Tuesday that McLeod “The RCMP are now consid- Chynna Deese,” Shoihet and grey hair, and asked
can Chynna Deese and and Schmegelsky left British ering Kam McLeod and Bry- said for public help in identifying
23-year-old Australian Lu- Columbia and have been er Schmegelsky suspects in Shoihet said they are con- him.q
France seeks European surveillance to

secure Gulf traffic

By ELAINE GANLEY of a Europe-led “maritime tive, which is ... maximum
Associated Press protection mission” an- pressure” against Iran.
PARIS (AP) — France says nounced a day earlier by Foreign Ministry spokes-
it’s working with its Europe- his British counterpart, Jer- woman Agnes Von der
an partners on an observa- emy Hunt, offering instead Muhll said at briefing that
tion mission to ensure mari- what seems to be a softer the initiative involves “ap-
time security in the Persian version. France is working propriate means of sur-
Gulf, where tensions have “at this moment on a Euro- veillance” aimed at “in-
climbed with Iran’s seizure pean initiative” with Britain creased understanding
last week of a U.K.-flagged and Germany, he told law- of the situation at sea” to A speedboat of the Iran’s Revolutionary Guard moves around
oil tanker. makers, without elaborat- facilitate traffic in a water- a British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero, which was seized
on Friday by the Guard, in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas,
Foreign Minister Jean-Yves ing. “This vision is the oppo- way that is critical to the Sunday, July 21, 2019.
Le Drian made no mention site of the American initia- global economy. q Associated Press