has begun in North Van-
couver, foHowing the
discovery early Saturday
morning of a male body in

A--MURDER~ investigation

‘car’ while’ the vehicle blaze ~
was being fought by North
Vancouver
firefighters.

District

Detectives were Monday

the back of a burning car in | still trying to identify the

“itwasmale.~ ~~ eee

First at the fire scene were
National Harbors’ Board

Police, who arrived at 2:49
a.m. Fire crews found the

_ Cates Park.
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aftera ‘Body was: fourid i in the

ROBBERS wearing stocking

masks, who brutally. beat up. .

a gas station attendant in
North Vancouver early
Monday, ended up losing
their haul when a wheel
broke off the safe while they
were wheeling it away.

The two robbers beat the
attendant, of the Pay n’ Save
gas station at Third Street
and St. David’s, with broken
hockey sticks and took him
to a storage area at the back

body, which they said was
~burne

all that’ was known ‘was that

joint where

tee

”

robbers kicked him in | the
head. repeatedly, virtually to. ...
the’ point of un-
consciousness.

They took $70 from him

which they found in his
coverails and went off with
an 1800-pound floor safe
containing cash.

But while it was being
pushed west in the laneway,
one of its wheels came off
and the safe fell on its side.

of the service station.
There they tied him up on
the floor and one of the

At that point, the robbers
abandoned the safe and fled
to a waiting vehicle.

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