Woman in her 70s dies of hypothermia outside Montreal seniors' residence

A woman in her 70sis dead after being found unconsciousearly this morning outside the seniors' residence where she lived in Montreal's east end.

She died of hypothermia.

The woman was found at the corner of HintonAvenue and Ste-JulieStreet around 6:35a.m., not far fromtheRsidenceLesPliadesin Montral-Est.

It was about 2 Coutside at the timethe woman was found.

Awitness phoned 911, andUrgences-Santresponded, takingthe woman to hospital by ambulance, according toMontreal police spokesperson Const. Vronique Dubuc. The womanwas declared dead on arrival at the hospital.

The director of the RsidenceLesPliadeshas not yet returned calls to CBC News.

On its website, the residence is described as an intermediate-level institution with space for 52 residents. It'soperated by the SocitEmmanuel-Grgoire, affiliated with theCIUSSS de l'Est-de-l'le-de-Montral.

The woman's death comes four months after Rowley Hotte, the mother offormerBloc Qubcois leader Gilles Duceppe, was found dead outside her own seniors' residence during a snowstorm.Her deathraised questions about safety protocols at seniors' homes.