Minnesota, June 16 -- The suspect in the shootings of two Minnesota lawmakers has been arrested after a nearly two-day-long manhunt, US police said as per local media reports.

Police said during a press conference that the suspect, Vance Boelter, 57, was arrested on Sunday (local time) near his farm in Green Isle, Minnesota.

He was spotted on a trail via camera and then taken into custody, police said.

The search for Boelter took roughly 43 hours and involved "hundreds of detectives" and 20 different SWAT teams, Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Bruley said, calling it the "largest manhunt in the state's history."

A local resident's trail camera captured an image of a man fitting the suspect's description, the Minneapolis Star Tribune r...