A seven-year-old boy is dead following an early-morning house fire in Garden Hill First Nation.
Emergency crews were called to the fire in a home on the First Nation, 475 northeast of Winnipeg, around 5 a.m. Friday.
Police say an adult resident of the home first noticed the flames around 3 a.m. and started evacuating the home.
Three adults and four children were inside at the time of the fire, say police.
![Get the day's top stories from Winnipeg and surrounding communities, delivered to your inbox once a day.](https://globalnews.ca/wp-content/themes/shaw-globalnews/images/skyline/winnipeg.jpg)
Get daily Winnipeg news
One child was unaccounted for after everyone else escaped the flames, and police say the body of a seven-year-old boy was found inside later in the day Friday.
The office of the fire commissioner is helping Island Lake RCMP investigate the fire.