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One person has been located deceased following a house fire in Napier.
Emergency services were called to Main North Road, Bay View, around 5am today.
Enquiries into the circumstances of the fire are ongoing, and the formal identification process is underway.
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Attributable to Detective Inspector Martin James:
Three people have died after an incident at an Avenue Road East, Hastings, address early this morning.
Emergency services were called to the property about 6am after reports of several people being seriously injured.
On arrival, one person was found deceased.
Two others were found to be in a critical condition and one in a serious condition, and were transported to Hastings Hospital.
Sadly, both critical parties have now also died.
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Police Maritime responded to a search and rescue incident this afternoon after a group of kayakers were reported overdue off the coast in the Stanmore Bay area.
The group had set off from Mahurangi intending to paddle to Manly Beach. When one double kayak failed to arrive as expected and sea conditions deteriorated, with rough seas and winds of 15–20 knots, a member of the group contacted Police.
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