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Man arrested in connection to fatal fire that left three dead in Halifax

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 08 Jan, 2015 10:33 AM

    HALIFAX — Police have taken a 30-year-old man into custody for questioning after firefighters recovered the bodies of three people from a burned out home in Halifax.

    Cpl. Greg Church said the third body was removed from the home Thursday, a day after two people were discovered in the burning wreckage on Old Guysborough Road.

    Church said he could not release any details on the suspect or the victims as the investigation is in its early stages.

    Earlier, the RCMP said a man was taken into custody at about 12:45 a.m. Thursday after someone rammed two police vehicles with a car in the Milford area, about a half-hour drive from the scene of the blaze.

    "The individual that was involved in the collision with the police cars in the Milford area last evening is a suspect in the house fire," he said.

    The fire broke out Wednesday around 4:30 p.m. The home is in a rural, wooded area about 25 kilometres northeast of Halifax's airport.

    Church said the bodies will undergo autopsies to determine the causes of death.

    Deputy fire Chief Roy Hollett said crews had to wait before entering the building to find a third person who was unaccounted for because the first and second floors of the home collapsed.

    A spokesman for the Halifax Regional Municipality said one problem in fighting the fire was a metal roof that kept the interior of the house extremely hot.

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