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KAPUSKASING, Ont. – Ontario’s police watchdog is investigating after a man died in Kapuskasing, Ont. on Saturday.

The Special Investigations Unit says an Ontario Provincial Police officer was investigating a vehicle near the Northern Ontario town, when he found a man inside with what appeared to be a long-barrelled weapon.

Police secured the immediate area and the SIU says officers found that the man had suffered a gunshot wound – he died later Saturday.

The SIU describes the case as a “custody death” but the agency gives few other details.

The SIU is automatically called in whenever police are involved in an incident where a person is killed or suffers serious injury.

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