Police investigate suspicious fire in Chinatown area

Ottawa police are investigating a suspicious fire in the Chinatown area that shut down several roads March 9.

Roads are now reopened after the area on Somerset Street West between Bell Street North and Lebreton Street had to be closed, according to police.

Ottawa firefighters extinguished a fire on an adjacent street just after 7 p.m. March 9.

One person suffered minor smoke inhalation and was sent to hospital, but has since been released, according to police.

The cause of the fire is still under investigation.