2 Dead in Manitoba After Tornado Threw Their Vehicle Into a Field: RCMP

A first responder checks on an overturned vehicle at the scene where a tornado touched down, uprooting trees and overturning two vehicles near Virden, Man., Aug. 7, 2020. The Canadian Press/HO-Wallace District Fire Department

VIRDEN, Man.—RCMP say a man and a woman are dead after a tornado touched down at a farm in western Manitoba on Friday evening and carried a vehicle they were believed to have been in over a kilometre.

A man who was in a second vehicle that was also thrown has survived with serious injuries.