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NRI Latest New: Ottawa, Oct 5 A major fire broke out in a hostel building in Old Montreal Canada, killing at least two people, local media reported.
Montreal police said the fire, which started around 2 a.m. on Friday morning in the building at the corner of Notre-Dame and Bonsecours streets, is suspicious in nature, and the cause remains unknown.
The three-story, 100-year-old building completely destroyed by the fire housed the hostel called Le 402 on the second and third floors and a restaurant on the main floor, the reports said, Xinhua news agency reported.
Police were unable to confirm the number of deaths at a news conference Friday afternoon, as investigators didn’t yet have access to the scene.
A report in CBC News says that the tax records of the city give an indication that the house belonged to Emile-Haim Benamor; he was the one who filed an application for a permit to construct a “20-room hotel” there back in 2021. The same individual, besides, had owned the building on Place D’Youville in Old Montreal where seven people lost their lives by fire in March 2023.
