North End fire probed
A fire Thursday afternoon in a North End bungalow on Logan Avenue is under investigation, the city's fire department said. Fire crews responded to a call shortly after 1:30 p.m. and found the single-storey home in the 1100 block ablaze. Firefighters confined the flames to the front bedroom of the house, but there was smoke and heat damage throughout the structure. Damage is estimated at $80,000, including contents.
Fence hurts woman, 96
A 96-year-old woman who was visiting her brother at Victoria General Hospital was injured Tuesday afternoon when part of a construction site fence fell on her near the hospital's entrance.
"She's in stable condition (in hospital)," said Heidi Graham, a spokeswoman for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority.
She said she could not release details of the woman's injuries for privacy reasons.
The hospital is undergoing a multimillion-dollar expansion and renovation.
Graham said the fence has been secured so that "the incident doesn't happen again."
She said the WRHA is also looking at the possibility of having an alternate drop-off area at the hospital.
Illegal immigrant nabbed
A Portuguese citizen was caught illegally entering Canada near Gretna Tuesday.
The RCMP's border enforcement team got a tip from a local resident about a man illegally entering the country.
Police arrested Jorge Bento Soares Cardosa, 35, and transported him to the Emerson port of entry, where he was turned over to the Canadian Border Services Agency.
Tuesday night, at about 8 p.m., RCMP were again notified by a local resident about a suspicious vehicle with two occupants.
RCMP located the vehicle and found in it the brother and girlfriend of the Portuguese man they'd arrested earlier: Oscar Antonio Soares Cardosa, 37, a Portuguese citizen, and Sara Lima Ferreira DaSilva, 46, of Toronto. The two were arrested.
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