RCMP are investigating a suspicious fire in Tisdale that happened just hours after 250 people gathered for a candlelight vigil honouring a mother and three kids killed in a murder-suicide.
Emergency crews were called to the fire at the Country Side Inn in the rural Saskatchewan town early Thursday morning.
Smoke and flames were shooting several metres into the air when crews arrived, firefighters said.
No guests were in the motel and no one was injured.
The building sustained significant fire, smoke and water damage, Mounties said in a media release. The fire appears suspicious.
The candlelight vigil, which took place Wednesday night just hours before the blaze was reported, honoured 27-year-old Latasha Gosling and her children — Jenika, 8, Landen, 7, and Janayah, 4.
Their bodies were found in their mobile home in Tisdale last week.
RCMP said their killer then took a six-month-old baby from the home and drove to a home in Prince Albert, where he killed himself, but spared the child, who is now in the care of family members.
