of British Columbia botanist Leonard Dyck. His body was found dead on another highway.

The duo then drove more than 3,000km east to the province of Manitoba in a stolen RAV 4. They ditched the car they were travelling in and burned it.

The friends have been spotted twice in the extremely remote town of Gillam before today's sighting.

Specialist officers using sniffer dogs, a drone equipped with heat sensors, and helicopters are all engaged in the manhunt.

The airborne search has cast almost 200 miles wide and around 1,000 officers are working the case across the country.

Before today's sighting, RCMP Inspector Kevin Lewis told DailyMail.com: ‘It's probably about a thousand [officers working the case],’ he said.

The manhunt for Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, intensified Sunday with the Royal CanadianMounted Police (RCMP) Manitoba tweeting of the possible sighting

They ditched the car they were travelling in and burned it. The burn site of the stolen RAV 4 is seen above

Some blackened coins can be seen amongst other metal debris of the burned vehicle

RCMP officers make an early morning check off a passenger train in Gillam as they search for the deadly duo

RCMP Emergency Response Team (ERT) members load up for another day on the ground in the search for the suspected killers

‘Across Canada everybody's engaged where there's sightings and tips and all that, where people call up and they need to be investigated.

‘You have the resources over in BC still investigating, Saskatchewan are still investigating. Everybody's hyper sensitive so they're calling in tips on anybody who remotely looks