A nearly 7 hour police standoff in Kamloops last night ended with one man dead and a Dufferin home completely destroyed by fire. The suspect a 48 year old surrey man is presumed dead after the home was rocked with explosions shortly after midnight. The man had just released his former girlfriend from the Cannel Street home. Kamloops RCMP Staff Sergeant Grant Learned says as negotiations for her release went on it became apparent the man had explosives in the home and in his van. Once the explosions in the home were heard it was soon fully engulfed in flames with the suspect dead at the scene. Firefighters were forced to stand by and watch the home burn because of other explosives in the suspects van. Crews finally managed to put water on the blaze and keep it from spreading to nearby homes. Earlier in the standoff the woman's current boyfriend fled the home with three of the woman's four children, with the fourth escaping through a window. Staff Gergeant Grant Learned says the pipe bombs in the mans van were dismantled this morning. The stand off began shortly after 5PM yesterday. The woman released was unharmed.
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