New Zealand police open homicide inquiry after at least six die in Loafers Lodge blaze
A fire that erupted in a Wellington hostel,, is being investigated as arson by New Zealand’s police, who have started a homicide inquiry.
Bennett said not everyone who was at the hostel had registered themselves as safe with the authorities, and urged those who escaped the building to contact the police. Some residents left their phones in their rooms when they fled. The hostel in Newtown – near central Wellington – was home to a mix of short- and long-term tenants, including workers at the nearby hospital. Murray Edridge, the head of the Wellington City Mission,said that clients of the charitable organisation were among those who lived at the hostel. Nine residents were being supervised by New Zealand’s corrections agency.
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