Ottawa police say one person is dead and five are unaccounted for after Thursday’s explosion and fire at a business on Merivale Road.
The five missing people are presumed dead.
Firefighters received multiple 911 calls Thursday around 1:30 p.m. about a large fire at 1995 Merivale Rd. between Cleopatra Drive and Slack Road, in the city’s Nepean area. Witnesses reported hearing large bangs coming from the site.
Ottawa police Insp. Frank D’Aoust said Friday one of the people taken to hospital died Friday morning, another was in serious and stable condition, and a third had been released.
He said four men and a woman who police
