Two men, 18 and 19, were found badly burned not far from a renovation business targeted by a fire of suspicious origin in Lachute, in the Laurentians, on Friday morning.
Police officers from the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) were called around 3:45 a.m. to hear the start of a fire in a building on avenue Béthany.
Even if the firefighters’ intervention was quick to control the flames, the building that houses the business was heavily damaged.
Almost in the same period of time, two individuals who seemed in bad shape were located by the emergency services a few blocks away, precisely on Sydney Street, said a spokesperson for the Sûreté de Québec.
With severe burns, they were transported to a hospital in a condition deemed critical.
The investigators and technicians in scene of fire were dispatched to the scene to establish the causes and the circumstances at the origin of this fire, specified the SQ.
Police are looking to see if there is any connection between the fire and the two people with severe burns.
“At the moment, we cannot establish an official link between the two events,” he added.