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RCMP release more information about four victims of northern Alberta house fire

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The RCMP logo is seen outside Royal Canadian Mounted Police "E" Division Headquarters, in Surrey, B.C., on April 13, 2018. RCMP have released more information about four people found dead Saturday after a house fire in northern Alberta. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

FOX LAKE, Alta. — RCMP have released more information about four people found dead Saturday after a house fire in northern Alberta.

The dead have been identified as a 78-year-old man and woman, an eight-year-old boy, and a seven-year-old girl.

The fire happened in Fox Lake on the Little Red River Cree Nation, a remote community northwest of Fort McMurray.

The dead were all residents of Fox Lake.

RCMP have said two children, a five-year-old girl and an 11-year-old boy, managed to escape the fire and were treated at a nursing station for non-life-threatening injuries.

The cause of the house fire remains under investigation.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 15, 2022.

The Canadian Press

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