Police investigate Point Douglas fire as homicide
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This article was published 08/07/2016 (3129 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Police now believe a Point Douglas fire that killed two people earlier this week was a homicide.
“At this stage of the investigation, evidence point to the fire being deliberately set,” the Winnipeg Police Service said in a statement Friday. “The investigation is continuting by members of the homicide unit.”
The fire was one of two fatal blazes in a span of hours Wednesday night; the other was in the North End.
At the Point Douglas fire, emergency crews were called at approximately 1:40 a.m. Thursday to a rooming house at 186 Austin Street North, home to four people, all taken to hospital. Two were prounounced dead shortly after and the other two were listed in stable condition.
The North End fire, in the 200-block of Aberdeen Avenue Wednesday evening claimed the life of a 56-year-old man. That fire was not considered suspicious, police said earlier.
Police did not disclose what new evidence now points to arson in the Point Douglas fire.
alexandra.paul@freepress.mb.ca
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