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Homicide Detectives Take Over After Person Dies In Port Moody, B.C., House Fire

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 11 Jul, 2016 09:49 AM
    PORT MOODY, B.C. — A house fire in Port Moody, B.C., is now a homicide investigation.
     
    The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says in a tweet that one person has died following the house fire early Sunday afternoon that seriously damaged a two-storey home in the Vancouver suburb.
     
    Ambulance officials earlier said one woman suffered severe burns, while a man and five children were being treated in hospital.
     
    Police escorted a man from the house to a waiting ambulance Sunday as firefighters quickly doused the flames.
     
    Police say one person is under arrest.
     
    The cause of the fire has not been determined.

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