Fatal fire probed
PA New Plymouth Police were last evening treating as homicide the ■death of a man after an /explosion and fire in a New i Plymouth house yesterday. I He was: ■ George Edward Banks, aged I 75, of New Plymouth. | Three others persons were !in Taranaki Base Hospital jwith burns. | Sergeant V. R. Story said ! the fire was believed to have j been started by an accelerant. Police inquiries were continuing. The police were treating the death as a homicide, he said. Sergeant Story said that several persons had telephoned to say they thought that shots had been fired, w'hile others said they had heard a “big bang" and had seen the house catch fire, he said. However, the police were satisfied that no shots had been fired, but had yet to. establish, the events leading up to
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Press, 11 February 1981, Page 6
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