WELLINGTON - New Zealand police said on Wednesday (May 17) a fire at a hostel in the capital, Wellington, in which at least six people were killed was suspected to have been arson and they had opened a homicide inquiry. A blaze broke out on the top floor of the Loafers Lodge in the suburb of Newtown in the early.
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Police are now treating the Loafers Lodge fire, which killed at least six people, as suspicious.
Inspector Dion Bennett, the acting Wellington District Com
New Zealand fire officials have ruled that a five-alarm blaze that heavily damaged a Wellington hostel and killed six people early Tuesday was an arson and a homicide.