The RCMP has agreed to release new information about the disappearance of two children from their home in rural Nova Scotia, including accounts from witnesses who said they heard a vehicle going back and forth nearby, a few hours before the kids were reported missing.

Malehya Brooks-Murray reported her children, six-year-old Lilly and four-year-old Jack Sullivan, were missing at 10 a.m. on May 2. They all lived in Lansdowne Station, N.S., a rural community in the province’s northeast. Brooks-Murray told police she believed the two children had wandered away from home.

The RCMP agreed to release the new information to The Canadian Press and other media outlets ahead of a scheduled court hearing to review whether the information could be made public. They shed new light on a mystery that

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