Investigation opened after Nunavik woman dies in police custody
Quebec’s police watchdog agency says it is investigating the death of a 39-year-old woman in police custody after being arrested in the province’s northernThe Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes , which investigates all police intervention and in-custody deaths in the
province, said in a statement that the woman died Friday evening at a police station Puvirnituq, a village on Hudson’s Bay.Authorities say the woman had been arrested at 5:45 p.m. by local Nunavik Police for violating a municipal bylaw and was brought into police custody.
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