Close X
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
ADVT 
National

Police Investigating After Man's Body Found In Creek On Salt Spring Island

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 12 Oct, 2015 10:48 PM
    SALT SPRING ISLAND, B.C. — Police are investigating after a body was found in a creek on Salt Spring Island.
     
    RCMP say a recreational fisherman reported finding a man's body near Fulford Harbour around 6 p.m. Saturday.
     
    Sgt. George Jenkins of the Salt Spring Island RCMP says in a release that the cause of the man's death is not yet known and police cannot confirm whether foul play was involved.
     
    Jenkins adds that there is no evidence to suggest residents of the Island are at risk.
     
    Salt Spring RCMP, the Vancouver Island Integrated Major Crime Unit and the BC Coroners Service are all investigating, and an area near where the body was located remains blocked off by police tape.
     
    RCMP say the man's next of kin have been notified, but his identify is not yet being released.
     

    MORE National ARTICLES

    Family, Friends From Worlds Of Sports And Arts Honour Michael Burgess At Funeral

    Family, Friends From Worlds Of Sports And Arts Honour Michael Burgess At Funeral
    Family and hundreds of friends from the worlds of sport, the arts and media gathered on Monday to remember "Les Miserables" star Michael Burgess at a music-filled funeral service.

    Family, Friends From Worlds Of Sports And Arts Honour Michael Burgess At Funeral

    Isolated Reserve With No Clean Water To Make Case Before United Nations

    Isolated Reserve With No Clean Water To Make Case Before United Nations
    A reserve cut off from the mainland and under a boil-water advisory for almost two decades is taking its case to the United Nations.

    Isolated Reserve With No Clean Water To Make Case Before United Nations

    Vancouver Mayor Gets U.S. State Department Invite To Talk Climate Change Action

    Gregor Robertson was invited to attend the Our Cities, Our Climate initiative in Washington, D.C., to help advise Kerry in the lead up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris later this year.

    Vancouver Mayor Gets U.S. State Department Invite To Talk Climate Change Action

    Second Degree Murder Charges Laid Against Two Men In Vanderhoof Double Slaying

    Second Degree Murder Charges Laid Against Two Men In Vanderhoof Double Slaying
    RCMP Cpl. Dave Tyreman says the charges are related to a nearly three-year-old slaying in that central interior community, about 100 kilometres west of Prince George.

    Second Degree Murder Charges Laid Against Two Men In Vanderhoof Double Slaying

    Making Light Of Oil Plight: Cheeky References To Downturn Abound In Calgary

    Calgarians' moods may have been dragged down with the price of oil, but that doesn't mean they can't get into shape, find love or — at the very least — enjoy a glass or three of wine.

    Making Light Of Oil Plight: Cheeky References To Downturn Abound In Calgary

    Lengthy Inquest Into Deaths Of Young Aboriginals Starts In Thunder Bay, Ont.

    Lengthy Inquest Into Deaths Of Young Aboriginals Starts In Thunder Bay, Ont.
    A long-awaited inquest into the deaths of seven aboriginal youths who moved from their remote reserves to go to high school in Thunder Bay, Ont., opened Monday following a sunrise ceremony.

    Lengthy Inquest Into Deaths Of Young Aboriginals Starts In Thunder Bay, Ont.