— Tragedy struck a small town on Quebec’s Gaspe Peninsula on Sunday, where a 37-year-old woman and her young twins died following an early morning fire. Quebec provincial police said the woman and her two one-year-old children were pronounced dead in hospital after the fire broke out in a residential building in this community almost 500 kilometres northeast of Quebec City. “We saw the building was under pressure, there was a lot of smoke in the inside and flames coming out the back,” Carol Dugas said. He said they didn’t find any smoke detectors inside the building, which Dugas said is owned by the city. “It’s always said when it happens in a small community like ours.

Source: National Post October 08, 2017 17:21 UTC