Experts, police sifting through rubble of collapsed northern Ontario mall

TORONTO – Police, a firefighter and an engineer will be sifting through the wreckage of a collapsed mall in the northern Ontario city of Elliot Lake that resulted in the deaths of two women.

Officials say police and the firefighter will be collecting information to help the coroner and province’s investigations.

They say the Ministry of Labour engineer will try to figure out whether there are other structural problems to determine if the building needs to be torn down.

But a spokesman for the ministry says it isn’t looking at the cause of the roof collapse.

They say the province looks at the health and safety of workers, while the city is responsible for enforcing the Ontario building code.

The opposition leaders are also demanding to know what happened and why.

Ontario’s Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak says there was “some kind of screw up” when efforts to rescue any survivors were suspended on Monday after the building was deemed unsafe.

NDP Leader Andrea Horwath wants a public inquiry to get to the bottom of what led to the disaster.

Premier Dalton McGuinty has promised that the government will “carefully review” how it responded to the collapse.