Police in Alberta have found the remains of one person and are looking for another body as an investigation into the disappearance and death of nearly two dozen sex-trade workers continues.
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A young couple walking in a rural area east of Edmonton stumbled across human remains Tuesday, the RCMP said in a news release late in the day.
That's the same area where the bodies of more than 20 women have been found in the last 23 years. Most of the victims were prostitutes.
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The string of killings is being investigated by a special RCMP task force known as Project Kare.
The task force has been asked to take part in the probe of Tuesday's discovery, which appears to be the body of a woman, the RCMP release said.
"While it is currently not certain that this is a death that falls within the Project Kare mandate, they will remain actively involved until the status of the investigation is further known," the statement said.
Officials have scheduled an autopsy for Wednesday.
Officers scour landfill for woman's body
Elsewhere, more than a dozen Calgary police officers continue to search a landfill in the southeastern part of the city for evidence of a possible killing.
The Edmonton-based Project Kare team is also involved in that case, with police calling it routine procedure.
Police say they received a tip that a homicide may have occurred earlier this month involving a woman in her late teens or early twenties.
Staff Sgt. Barry Cochran said investigators dug through 500 tonnes of waste Tuesday without finding either evidence or human remains.
He said the tip directed police to look in one particular part of the landfill site.
The search will continue for the next few days.