Quebec police say six people perished in house fire north of Montreal

An emergency worker is shown at the scene of a fatal fire at a home in Ste-Julienne, Que., Thursday, February 9, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes

SAINTE-JULIENNE, Que. - Quebec provincial police say they have found two additional bodies inside a home that burned Thursday morning north of Montreal, bringing the death toll to six.

Police say four children aged under eight years and two adults died when the house in Ste-Julienne, in Quebec's Lanaudière region, caught fire at around 1 a.m.

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