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Suspicious Death In Langley Hotel, Integrated Homicide Investigation Team Probe

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 23 Jan, 2016 12:29 PM

LANGLEY, B.C. — Homicide investigators have been called to a suspicious death at a Langley hotel.

Langley RCMP responded on Friday afternoon to the hotel, where a man was found deceased in one of the rooms.

Police determined the death was suspicious and called the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team.

IHIT says investigators were set to be at the scene for several hours Saturday.

There’s been an apparent death in #LangleyBC, where @HomicideTeam have a tent set up behind Baselines Pub. pic.twitter.com/soZpytkLMx
— Rafferty Baker (@raffertybaker) January 23, 2016

Sgt. Stephanie Ashton says the investigation is in the early stages and a number of officers are speaking to people at the scene.

But she says no motive for the death has been determined and anyone with information should come forward to police.

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