Woman dead after fire breaks out in Montreal-North homeless encampment

A woman in her 50s is dead after a fire broke out early Wednesday in a homeless encampment in the borough of Montreal-North.

Montreal police said they were alerted by a passerby at 4:50 a.m. that a fire had broken out at the camp on Charleroi St. near Lacordaire Blvd.

Officers found a woman in her 50s unconscious. She was taken to a hospital in critical condition and later declared dead.