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Pelly museum fire deliberately set: RCMP

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Flames shoot from a museum in Pelly, Sask. on Saturday, June 13, 2015. (Facebook/Eunice Ketchemonia-Cote)

RCMP say the fire that detroyed a museum in Pelly, Sask. was deliberately set.

The fire started in a boxcar which was adjacent to the muesum on Saturday afternoon.

According to the village website, the museum was located in an old high school.

Pelly is located near the Saskatchewan-Manitoba border about 100 kilometres northeast of Yorkton.