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Woman found injured outside bar

Guy Quenneville
Northern News Services
Wednesday, July 4, 2007

YELLOWKNIFE - An unconscious woman with apparent severe injuries to her face was taken to hospital June 28 after she was discovered on the sidewalk outside the Gold Range Hotel and Diner on 50 Street, a witness to the scene said.

Gary MacInnis was walking in the area to pick up his girlfriend from work when he noticed a crowd in the area at around 3 p.m.

"I was just walking down the street and she was on the ground and it looked like she was beat up or she smashed her face when she fell," said MacInnis.

"There were lots of people (around her). The ambulance was there. I saw them put her on a stretcher and into the ambulance. They didn't have a neck-brace or anything."

"It looked like her face was all swollen up and she was out cold. She's just a young girl. I've seen her around the streets before."

Roger Drybones was walking out of the Gold Range bar earlier that afternoon when he spotted the woman.

"I started walking towards my place. A girl just laid there on her side," said Drybones, pointing to the sidewalk beside the bar.

Deputy chief Merlin Klassen said the fire department "did attend an ambulance call at the Gold Range (on Thursday afternoon)" outside the hotel between 2 and 3 p.m.

RCMP spokesperson Roxanne Dreilich said that as of last Friday, the RCMP received no report on the incident.

Dreilich said that normally if a person is found injured, "there would be an assault file associated to it."

"Lots of times assaults occur and it's kind of a bit of an apathy thing. The public perhaps doesn't recognize the seriousness of situations sometimes, and they just don't get reported."