Canadian police have withdrawn their forces from the York Landing area, a remote indigenous community where they were investigating a possible sighting of triple-murder suspects Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky.
Hercules military aircraft and hundreds of Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers were deployed to York Landing after volunteers from the Bear Clan Patrol reported a possible sighting of the pair at a local dump, foraging for food.
The Mounties were unable to confirm the sighting.
"The heavy police presence in York Landing has been withdrawn and policing resources in the community will return to normal," the RCMP announced in a tweet.
The focus of the search would return to the areas surrounding the town of Gillam, Manitoba, 200 kilometres from York Landing, where a burnt-out car linked to the fugitives was found.
"RCMP resources remain in the Gillam area, and will continue to conduct searches in high-probability areas for any signs of the suspects," it said.
The search of remote areas is being conducted both on foot and in the air.
The teenage fugitives, who are suspects in the murders of Australian Lucas Fowler and his American girlfriend, Chynna Deese, and have been charged with the shooting murder of 64-year-old Leonard Dyck, are being called "Canada's most wanted men" by local media.
The manhunt is now into its eighth day.
