{"id":26128,"date":"2014-09-18T01:43:47","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T17:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=26128"},"modified":"2014-09-18T01:43:47","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T17:43:47","slug":"winnipeg-police-unsure-about-origin-of-bones-found-along-red-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/09\/18\/winnipeg-police-unsure-about-origin-of-bones-found-along-red-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg police unsure about origin of bones found along Red River"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_26181\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26181\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/bones.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26181\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/bones.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock image\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/bones.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/bones-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/bones-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26181\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">shutterstock image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WINNIPEG &#8212; Volunteers searching the Red River in Winnipeg for murdered and missing aboriginal women have discovered some bones, but tests have yet to determine if they are human.<\/p>\n<p>The bones were found late Tuesday afternoon in dried soil along the river near a busy bike trail in the city&#8217;s core area.<\/p>\n<p>A short time later, a long, black commercial floor mat that appeared to be partly covered with blood was pulled from the river&#8217;s edge at a different location.<\/p>\n<p>Police were sent to guard the sites and an identification unit arrived early in the evening.<\/p>\n<p>Police duty Insp. Rick Lange says they&#8217;re unsure about the origin of the bones, but they will be tested to determine what they&#8217;re from.<\/p>\n<p>The discoveries came just hours before the volunteers were to begin dragging the river for evidence of any missing and murdered women.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to search the Red was made after the body of a 15-year-old aboriginal girl, Tina Fontaine, was pulled from the river last month near a dock in the downtown area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG &#8212; Volunteers searching the Red River in Winnipeg for murdered and missing aboriginal women have discovered some bones, but &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":26181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}