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Ontario’s police watchdog is investigating the death of a man in Niagara Falls, Ont., after the man and a police officer went over a retaining wall and into the Niagara Gorge.
The Special Investigations Unit says that shortly after 5 p.m. ET on Tuesday a Niagara Regional Police officer was chasing a man on River Road, between Otter and Eastwood streets, roughly three kilometres from the falls.
Shortly afterward, both people went over a wall and into the Niagara Gorge. The man who was being chased died.
The officer broke his leg and was airlifted by ORNGE air ambulance to Hamilton General Hospital.
The SIU, which investigates police incidents involving death, serious injury or sexual assault, has assigned seven investigators and two forensic investigators to the case.
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