1 dead after house fire in Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T.

RCMP have confirmed that someone lost their life following a house fire overnight in Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T.

Fire investigators are travelling to Tuktoyaktuk, but an RCMPofficer told CBC News he did not believe thefire wassuspicious.

Police saidthe investigation will now transfer to coroner's officeand the N.W.T. fire marshal.

The fire damaged a blue house at the corner of Iisua Road andKiiqichivik Lane.

It comes two days after a fire burned the youth centre in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, to the ground.