Jury selection begins today for a man charged in the deaths of two New Brunswick boys who were suffocated by a python in August 2013.
Jean-Claude Savoie, who now lives near Montreal, is charged with criminal negligence causing death.
Four-year-old Noah Barthe and his six-year-old brother, Connor, died after a 45-kilogram African rock python fell on top of them as they slept in Savoie's apartment in Campbellton.
The RCMP said the snake managed to get out of its tank overnight and got into a ventilation pipe in the ceiling.
Its weight caused the pipe to collapse and the snake fell into the room where the boys were sleeping.