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Teen boy dead after assault outside Manitoba home: RCMP

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Police say a 16-year-old boy has died after an assault outside a northern Manitoba home.

RCMP were called just before 2 a.m. Friday to a report of an assault in progress involving two teens outside a home on Black Sturgeon Falls, a community about 35 kilometres east of Lynn Lake, Man.

Mounties arrived on scene and found a 16-year-old boy outside the home. He was pronounced dead.

Another 16-year-old boy was arrested and remains in custody.

An investigation is ongoing.

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