Two people have been arrested in connection to a fire in Old Montreal that killed a mother and her daughter earlier this month.
Montreal police announced the arrests Friday, a week after the Oct. 4 blaze ripped through a century-old building that left 43-year-old French national Léonor Geraudie and her seven-year-old daughter Vérane Reynaud Geraudie dead.
Police say the other 23 people believed to be in the building on Notre-Dame Street East when the flames broke out all made it out. One person remains in hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.
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Quebec’s chief coroner announced an inquiry Tuesday, saying it comes following a request by Quebec’s Public Security Minister François Bonnardel. Coroner Géhane Kamel, who is already presiding over a separate coroner’s inquiry into the March 2023 fire that killed seven people in Old Montreal, will lead the inquest.
More to come.
— with files from The Canadian Press