{"id":509955,"date":"2026-03-02T18:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/509955\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T18:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:46:10","slug":"rcmp-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/509955\/","title":{"rendered":"RCMP \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE \u2013 Mounties in southern Manitoba say a 12-year-old boy is dead after a home was engulfed in flames over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>RCMP say they were called early Sunday to a home in Portage la Prairie, where multiple residents were reported to be inside.<\/p>\n<p>They say two adults and five children escaped with minor injuries, but told an officer that the boy had not made it out.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69a5c4ff8b2785e03f0500e3jpeg.jpg\" data-pswp- data-pswp-width=\"4692\" data-pswp-height=\"3128\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69a5c4ff8b2785e03f0500e3jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"Manitoba RCMP Headquarters in Winnipeg, Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/David Lipnowski\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tManitoba RCMP Headquarters in Winnipeg, Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/David Lipnowski<\/p>\n<p>The boy\u2019s body was later found inside the home.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is being investigated.<\/p>\n<p>Portage la Prairie is 75 kilometres west of Winnipeg.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 2, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE \u2013 Mounties in southern Manitoba say a 12-year-old boy is dead after a home was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-509955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}