Vic: Detectives establish crime scene at fire after body find

AAP General News (Australia)
04-14-2008
Vic: Detectives establish crime scene at fire after body find

MELBOURNE, April 14 AAP - Homicide and arson squad detectives are investigating the
death of a man following a fire in a house in Melbourne's west yesterday.

Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MFB) crews were called to the house in Hyde Street, Footscray,
shortly before 9pm (AEST).

A neighbour, who noticed smoke coming from the house, found the body of a man in his
40s in the kitchen, police said.

Firefighters found a second man who had been sleeping in the house. He was taken to
the Royal Melbourne Hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation.

Police would confirm only that a crime scene had been established and detectives would
investigate the circumstances of the man's death.

A Metropolitan Fire Brigade spokesman said the fire did not cause much damage.

"We attended very early to a small fire in the kitchen. It was under control right
from the word go," the spokesman said.

"It did not do much damage apart from a bit of smoke logging.

"Detectives from the homicide squad have established a crime scene."

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