Unattended cigarette may be cause of Montreal fatal fire that left two dead, three hurt
Posted November 9, 2019 6:45 am.
Last Updated November 9, 2019 12:43 pm.
MONTREAL — Police say an unattended cigarette might be what sparked a fire in a Montreal apartment that has left a woman and an eight-year-old girl dead.
The fire broke out about 11 p.m. Friday in a single apartment in a 51-unit building in Lachine, in western Montreal.
Montreal police say the deaths of the woman, 40, and the eight-year-old girl were pronounced in hospital.
Three other minors — a five-year-old girl and two boys, 13, were taken to hospital.
Police say the five-year-old girl remains in critical condition today.
Const. Jean-Pierre Brabant says investigators are working with a hypothesis that a cigarette sparked the fire.
He says investigators are still combing the scene for evidence with crime scene technicians.
