A police shooting that left one man dead and another seriously injured in a northern Quebec village early Monday allegedly occurred after officers answered a call about someone trying to drive while intoxicated. But Quebec’s police watchdog released few other details on Tuesday about what happened around 4:10 a.m. that morning in Salluit, an Inuit fly-in community about 1,850 kilometres north of Montreal. The oversight agency — Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes — said Nunavik police received a 911 call about someone who was allegedly trying to drive while impaired. Based on preliminary information, the agency said two officers arrived at the scene a few minutes after the call and had a physical altercation with two men. The watchdog’s statement didn’t say whether either of the men was armed, but said

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