Woman dead in Mission trailer park fire; 2 kids managed to escape

WATCH: Homicide investigators are at the scene of a suspicious fatal house fire in Mission. Ted Chernecki reports.

VANCOUVER – The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) has been called to a trailer park on Shook Road in Mission after the body of a woman was found.

She was found inside a burnt out trailer home Friday morning. Flames broke out around 3:30 a.m.

The investigation is still in the early stages and the victim has not been identified.

Police are releasing few details at this time, but neighbours and witnesses have been providing some details. A woman whose bedroom overlooks the trailer that burned told Global News she could hear the screams of two children coming from inside the trailer when flames broke out. She then saw the two children with zap-straps binding their wrists together as they escaped from the trailer.

“I got up around 2 o’clock and I went to go to the bathroom, come back, and I sat on my bed and all of a sudden I thought ‘gee, why is the backyard all lit up?” she said. “And I heard the kids screaming, I phoned for the fire department, and they were already coming. A couple of the neighbours went behind my house and helped them get out.”

“And I just heard them screaming and screaming.”

The children, a boy about 8 years old and a girl about 11 years old, were taken to Mission Hospital with some burns.

Sgt. Stephanie Ashton with IHIT said they have a strong belief this was a targeted offence. “Our belief that while we are currently searching for a suspect, we do not believe the public is at risk,” she said.

We will update this post when more information becomes available.