The Red Bridge, a historic landmark in Kamloops, B.C., was completely destroyed by a fire police are treating as suspicious early Thursday morning.
Video and photos posted to social media show the bridge engulfed in flames before it collapsed into the river underneath around 3:30 a.m.
Kamloops RCMP noted, in a news release, that the fire is the second one on the bridge in as many days and that investigators are treating it as suspicious.
“We are and will continue to work closely with our fire investigators and partners to establish how the fire began and if criminality was involved,” Supt. James Pelley, the officer in charge of the Kamloops RCMP said in a news release.
“We’re asking residents who may have been in the area at the time to please reach out to police if they saw anything suspicious, and to please check their security and dash camera footage …