Officials identify 3rd body in Mpls. pub fire

The medical examiner is identifying another victim of the fire that started in apartments above McMahon's Irish Pub last week.

He's 3-year-old Austin Gervais-Hjellming of Minneapolis. The Hennepin County medical examiner's office reports Friday that Austin died of smoke inhalation and burns.

He's the third person officially identified by the medical examiner. The others are his father, 26-year-old Andrew K. Gervais and 43-year-old Ann Gervais.

Officials have said the fire probably started in a corner apartment on the 98-year-old building's second floor. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

The fire was the city's deadliest in more than two decades.

Relatives have said they fear the remaining victims are Andrew Gervais' two other children and Ryan Richner, a bartender at the pub who lived above the bar.

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