Four children perish in fire in Nova Scotia

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Sunday, January 7, 2018 11:54

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PUBNICO HEAD | The burning of a house in Nova Scotia in eastern Canada has caused the death of four children on Sunday, according to the families cited by the local media, when the police was reported several of the victims.

The royal Canadian mounted police indicated that they had received an emergency call at 00h13 local Sunday for the house fire at Pubnico Head, 260 km south-west of Halifax on the atlantic coast.

“We can confirm that there are victims,” said Jennifer Clarke, spokeswoman for the RCMP at a press conference Sunday afternoon. However, it did not want to specify the exact number of dead because of an investigation still “at a preliminary stage”.

Ervin Olsen has been entrusted to the public television CBC that two of his grandchildren had perished in this fire, as well as two other children present in the residence at the time of the tragedy, but not being of the same family. On the basis of other testimony, two families are affected by this tragedy, according to the tv.

“We know that two people were able to escape the flames, one of these people has been hospitalized,” said Jennifer Clarke.

The firefighters took more than two hours to contain the fire to this house along the main road of the small village of the south coast of Nova Scotia.

The outside temperature was around -13 degrees Celsius in the night of Sunday in this region, with snow showers, according to canada’s weather services.

According to the spokesperson for the RCMP, the investigation must determine if the cause of the fire is an accident that home, weather conditions, or a criminal act.