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The body of an 81-year-old man was discovered inside a home during demolition following a weekend fire in Winnipeg’s Lord Roberts neighbourhood.
The 1½-storey home on Nassau Street S., between Brandon and Arnold avenues, burned late Saturday night. The fire was extinguished just before 2 a.m. Sunday but the lone resident of the home couldn’t be found, police said at the time.
His body was located during a systematic, room-by-room demolition of the house on Sunday, according to a police news release on Tuesday.
Members of the Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service’s rescue task force rappelled from the bucket of an aerial ladder and down into the house to retrieve the body.
The police service’s major crimes unit is investigating but the is not being treated as a suspicious incident, the news release stated.
The man is one of two people who died in fatal house fires in the province on the weekend.
A 12-year-old boy died in a fire in Portage la Prairie early Sunday morning when he couldn’t get out.
Two adults and five children escaped the home with relatively minor injuries but told police the boy was still inside, where his body was found later.