Las Vegas Investigators Find Body in Burned, Abandoned Wedding Chapel

Firefighters responded to a vacant building fire on S. Las Vegas Boulevard near the Strat Hotel late Tuesday afternoon on January 12. (Las Vegas Fire Rescue photo, Twitter)

Dispatchers received numerous calls for the building fire

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LAS VEGAS, Nevada – KSVN reports that a body was found in the debris after a fire at a vacant Las Vegas wedding chapel.

Investigators were at the site working on determining the cause when they discovered the body.

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police and the Clark County Coroner’s office are now part of the fire investigation, a standard protocol for fatal fires.

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