Unattended cigarette may have caused Montreal fire that killed mother, daughter

MONTREAL -- An unattended cigarette may be behind a fire inside a west-end Montreal apartment late Friday that left a woman and her eight-year-old daughter dead and her five-year-old daughter fighting for her life, police said Saturday. Five members of one family were inside the apartment when the fire broke out around 11 p.m. Friday, Montreal police said, in a 51-unit building in Lachine in the city's west end. The mother, 40, and her eight-year-old daughter were pronounced dead in hospital whi