Fatal house fire

A deadly house fire in Holt has been deemed suspicious by police.

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00:10 Yeah, between 2.30 and 3 AM this morning, police and

00:13 emergency services were called to this address and found a house on fire.

00:18 During firefighting activities and subsequent to that,

00:23 we found a deceased person inside.

00:27 And now we're investigating the circumstances of the fire and the death.

00:31 >> Are you treating it as a suspicious fire at this point, Inspector?

00:34 >> Yeah, at this point we're treating it as suspicious.

00:37 >> Is there a particular reason for that?

00:39 Is it simply because there's a deceased person or

00:41 is there something that makes you suspect foul play?

00:44 >> We're still investigating and at this stage we're dealing with it as

00:48 a suspicious fire and death until we can determine otherwise.

00:53 >> What do you know about the remains that were found?

00:56 >> Not a lot at this stage, we're just doing the first examination, so

01:02 we don't have a lot of information at this point.

01:04 >> Are you able to tell us the gender, the age?

01:07 >> I can't tell you anything other than it's a deceased person.

01:12 And because we haven't identified the person, we haven't notified their family.

01:17 So this stage is a pretty early stage.

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