The RCMP are looking for witnesses after a weekend fire left a cabin in ashes near the 27-kilometer mark of the Morice West forest service road, near Houston.
According to a statement from the Gidimt’en Clan, the building belonged to Chief Gisday’wa of the Wet’suwet’en Nation.
The site at the 27-kilometer mark was used as a hub months ago for the Wet’suwet’en and their supporters during the RCMP Enforcement of the Coastal GasLink injunction.
When the exclusion zone grew during the enforcement, multiple people were arrested.
When Chief Gisday’wa found the remains of the cabin, ‘it was still smoldering.’
The area was unoccupied at the time of the fire, which Corporal Madonna Saunderson says happened sometime between August 14th and 15th.
Police said the community-industry response team received the initial report and Houston RCMP are now in charge of the investigation.
Additional members of RCMP were called in to help with the investigation, but no one was found in the area at the time of the discovery.
– With files from Lindsay Newman, My Bulkley Lakes Now.
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