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Cops say residents had been out of country when fire broke out late Monday in Select Crt.-Mirage Place area
Published Mar 24, 2026 • Last updated 1 hour ago • 2 minute read
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Investigators are probing the circumstances surrounding a suspicious house fire late Monday in Mississauga that led to the discovery of a body.
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Peel Regional Police said first responders were called to a home in the Select Crt.-Mirage Place area just before 11 p.m., saying at the time that there were unknown injuries and that the blaze was contained to a single residence.
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Officials said a body was found inside the building, which police said contained a main unit and a basement apartment.
The age and identity of the deceased had yet to be determined, although police said they were not a resident of the home.
‘Large’ fire, explosion reported at scene
Jim Demetriou, a media relations and communications strategist with the Office of the Fire Marshall, told media Tuesday that they were told that the fire was “large” and that an explosion was reported, although it was unclear which happened first.
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He said officials were still trying to determine those facts and were awaiting heavy equipment to arrive on Wednesday to help with the investigation.
“We have investigators that were on site earlier and will be returning tomorrow,” Demetriou said. “We are here to find the origin, cause and circumstances around the fire that has occurred here.”
Const. Ty Bell said police had accounted for everyone who lived in the home, adding they were out of the country at the time of the fire.
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He said they were still trying to determine why the body was inside the building, suggesting they may have been someone who was keeping an eye on the home, but that there was nothing “concrete” at the moment.
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“Right now, we’ve got the difficult task of trying to determine who is the individual” who died, he said. “We don’t have particulars yet as to age or gender … and our investigators are trying to follow up with that.”
Bell said that the coroner’s office was working to determine a cause of death for the deceased, but that nothing “stands out right now that this is a criminal investigation.
“We don’t know what happened, we don’t know the cause of death, so it’s going to be treated ultimately as suspicious,” he said. “(But) there’s nothing overtly to indicate that any criminality has happened here.
“That’s obviously subject to change, these investigations are complex.”
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