Police say the number of people missing has risen from six to seven after a massive fire ripped through a historic building in Old Montreal on Thursday.
Work to partially dismantle the building will begin Sunday morning, said police and fire officials in an address to the media Saturday night.The second and third floors of the 15-unit building on Place d'Youville will be torn down “stone by stone,” said Montreal fire operations chief Martin Guilbault.The partial demolition will be done slowly to protect the workers and preserve the building’s heritage, said Guilbault.
On Saturday, friends and family of the teen gathered at the site of the fire, where a makeshift memorial has grown. Lacroix said authorities have not found his daughter's body, but members of the Montreal fire department and Montreal police arson squad held a news conference on Saturday morning and said there may be victims in the building.
Two of the nine people injured are still hospitalized at the burn centre of the Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal .Montreal
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