Attributable to Detective Senior Sergeant Jo Carolan:
Police continue to work at the scene of last night’s fire in Mairehau.
We can now confirm that the child who died in the house fire was a three-year-old girl.
Four other children aged between 10 weeks and five-years-old, were admitted to hospital. The children are siblings of the deceased girl.
Three of the surviving children have been discharged and are in the care of family members. One child, a girl aged two-years-old, remains in hospital in a stable condition, with moderate injuries.