STE. AGATHE, Man. -- A hog barn fire near Ste. Agathe, Man., wasn't as deadly as first thought.
A blaze broke out in a barn housing 3,000 hogs just before 2 p.m. on Thursday.
At first, RCMP thought all the hogs had perished in the fire at Sunnybrook Swine.
But now they say only a dozen sows died.
Seven employees who were in the building when the blaze broke out managed to escape without being injured.
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Firefighters from the rural municipality and two nearby communities responded to the blaze and managed to extinguish the fire.
