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B.C. RCMP investigating suspicious death near Kamloops

Paul Lake Road north of Kamloops is closed as police investigate a suspicious death. Kent Simmonds / CFJC Today

A death near Kamloops is being investigated by the B.C. RCMP, who call the incident suspicious and isolated.

Police say they were alerted of a death along the 600 block of Paul Lake Road on Tuesday at 12:30 a.m.

Officers attended and found the body of a man, with RCMP saying “the circumstances are being treated as suspicious.”

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“The death appears to be an isolated incident,” said Staff Sgt. Jason Smart of the RCMP’s Southeast District Major Crime Unit, which has taken over the investigation.

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Paul Lake Road, located north of Kamloops, is currently closed to traffic as police investigate. Motorists are asked to find an alternate route during the closure.

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Anyone with information is asked to contact the Southeast District Major Crime Unit Tip Line at 1-877-987-8477.

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