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Drugs being produced at West Kelowna, B.C., house where blast killed man: police

Drugs being produced at West Kelowna, B.C., house where blast killed man: police | iNFOnews.ca
FILE PHOTO Photographer: Kim Anderson

WEST KELOWNA, B.C. – RCMP say preliminary findings suggest a rental house that exploded and caught fire in West Kelowna, B.C., was being used as a drug lab.

Cpl. Jesse O'Donaghey says the exact cause of the blast is not yet known but police strongly believe an arsonist was not involved and the public is not at risk.

Four tenants were inside the house on Wednesday night, and one man died.

Police say two other residents suffered serious burns and were airlifted to a hospital in Vancouver.

O'Donaghey says investigators are still going through evidence at the house. (CKFR)

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Shelby Thevenot

Shelby has lived across Canada. She grew up near Winnipeg, Manitoba then obtained her B.F.A in Multidisciplinary Fine Arts at the University of Lethbridge in Lethbridge, Alberta. In 2014 she moved to Montreal, Quebec to study French and thrived in the Visual Journalism Graduate Diploma program at Concordia University. Now she works at iNFO News where she strives to get the stories that matter to the Okanagan Valley community.

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