HALIFAX — Two tracking dogs trained to search for human remains have failed to find any trace of two children reported missing from their rural Nova Scotia home more than five months ago, the RCMP said Wednesday.

The Mounties said that in late September, the two cadaver dogs and their handlers covered 40 kilometres around the small community of Lansdowne Station, N.S., where six-year-old Lilly Sullivan and her four-year-old brother Jack were reported missing May 2.

Investigators issued a statement Wednesday saying the dogs searched the property in the province’s northeast where the children went missing, trails along and near a pipeline, and an area where a pink blanket had been found. Police said these locations were considered areas where there was the highest probability of finding th

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