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Alberta RCMP investigating after human remains found near Maskwacis following recent house fire

Kelowna RCMP . Lee Brown / The Canadian Press

The Alberta RCMP’s major crimes unit is investigating after human remains were uncovered in a house, which recently burned to the ground, near Maskwacis on Ermineskin First Nation on March 8.

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Police said Wednesday that an autopsy “has been scheduled for sometime this week.”

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Maskwacis RCMP, the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office, an anthropologist and an RCMP Police Dog Services member from St. Paul, who used a human remains detection dog, helped investigators.

Firestorm Consulting Group is assisting RCMP with the origin and cause of the house fire.

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