Woman, two young children dead after house fire in eastern Quebec
CAP-CHAT, Que. — 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.
Emergency services were called to the fire at about 4 a.m. Sunday.
Police spokeswoman Helene Nepton said there was a brief evacuation involving a dozen neighbours and none were injured.