HAPPY VALLEY-GOOSE BAY , Newfoundland, June 23 (UPI) -- The death toll from a weekend Canadian apartment fire in Labrador rose to five with the deaths of two hospitalized children, police said Monday.
The blaze broke out Sunday morning and killed three females, one of them a visiting teenager in the central town of Happy Valley-Goose Bay, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., reported.
A 5-year-old girl and a 13-year-old boy were airlifted to a hospital in St. John's, Newfoundland, but died late Sunday, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said.
An 11-year-old boy was being treated in a local hospital for non-life-threatening injuries, CTV News said.
Police said there were nine people in the building, five of them children, when the fire broke out.
By Monday, fire investigators hadn't announced a likely cause for the fire. The CBC said police said alcohol may have played a factor but foul play wasn't suspected.
Mayor Leo Abbass said counselors would be made available at local schools for classmates of the dead children.
