A 12-year-old boy is dead following an early morning house fire in Portage la Prairie over the weekend.
Manitoba RCMP say officers were called to a residential fire in the first 100 block of 8th Street Northwest at around 4:40 a.m. on Sunday.
When police arrived, the home was fully engulfed in flames. Two adults and five children managed to escape with relatively minor injuries and told officers that a 12-year-old boy was still inside.
The boy’s body was later located within the residence.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
