Fatalities on Acadia Peninsula

A young man and woman are dead after a collision on Route 8 near Allardville on the Acadian Peninsula early yesterday morning.

Their car crossed the centre line and hit a transport truck head-on. The truck driver wasn’t injured.

RCMP are still investigating.

Eastern Passage fire

Flames erupted last night in a spectacular blaze at Fishermen’s Cove in Eastern Passage.

The Capital Seafood plant on Government Wharf Road was lit up a little after 9:00. There was extensive damage but nobody was hurt.