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The number of victims in the horrific Nova Scotia murder spree has ballooned since Sunday morning to 22 people after the RCMP sifted through the rubble of fires set in the small community of Portapique, N.S.

Also coming to light are the stories of survivors who narrowly escaped the wrath of the gunman.

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The two sons of Greg and Jamie Blair, who were shot to death on Saturday night, hid in their parents’ house from the killer and then escaped to a neighbour’s house.

“They hid in the house until he was gone and then they took off to the neighbours house and hid inside with their two little kids next door until the cops came,” Tyler Blair, the half-brother of the two children, 10 and 12, said in an interview with CTV News on Wednesday.

Photo by Handout/Kelly Blair via The Canadian Press

Blair said the children are now in his care and a family friend has launched a GoFundMe page to raise money for them.

Clinton Ellison, the brother of Corrie Ellison, who was shot to death on Saturday night, was returning to the scene of the murder to retrieve his car when he stopped to tell his story of being “hunted” by the gunman to the CBC’s Brett Ruskin.