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Disposal of smoking materials blamed for deadly Manitoba fire 

Jump to full article: CBC News (ca), 2008-06-16

Intro:

Two brothers — Troi Castel-Lapansee, 3, and Robert Castel-Lapansee Jr., 4 — and their cousin, Letrel Bighetty-Castel, 5, died of smoke inhalation in the fire in the remote community, located about 700 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg

Simon Nicholas, 57, died almost three weeks after the fire in a Winnipeg hospital, also due to smoke inhalation.

The fire broke out on the afternoon of March 10 in a house trailer on the reserve. . . .

Corrections and Clarifications

* A fire that killed three young boys and a man in Pukatawagan, Man., in March was caused by careless disposal of smoking materials, not careless smoking as was originally indicated in the headline.

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