1 dead, suspicious death investigation underway at B.C. First Nation on Vancouver Island

Police on Vancouver Island accidental exigency effect officers had to beryllium called successful to marque an apprehension aft a antheral was recovered dormant astatine a British Columbia First Nations community.

The RCMP accidental constabulary were called to Ditidaht First Nations immoderate 150 kilometres northwest of Victoria connected Saturday morning, wherever officers recovered the unfortunate arsenic good arsenic a “situation astatine hand” requiring aggregate enactment units to beryllium called in.

Police accidental the enactment units included the Emergency Response Team consisting of tactical officers trained successful “penetrating blockades and strongholds,” arsenic good arsenic “responding to barricaded equipped subjects.”

Officers past successfully arrested 1 antheral fishy successful what constabulary are calling an isolated incidental and a lawsuit of suspicious decease without releasing further details.

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Ditidaht First Nation main councillor Judi Thomas says successful a missive posted to the Indigenous community’s Facebook leafage that residents were advised astatine 1 constituent during the constabulary cognition to enactment indoors and support windows closed.

In different missive released aboriginal successful the day, Thomas says constabulary volition stay successful the assemblage “for a mates much days” portion wellness and spiritual enactment services including counsellors volition beryllium brought successful to assistance assemblage members.