24/09/2009

Dublin House Fire Victim 'Critical'

A man in his 50s is in a critical condition in hospital following a house fire in Dublin yesterday afternoon.

The victim was taken from the house at Decies Road in Ballyfermot with severe burns and is currently being treated at St James's Hospital.

The news came as the PSNI in the North launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding an early morning fatal fire in Co Armagh.

They have appealed to the public for information after a man died in a blaze at a mobile home in Craigavon.

It happened on the Derrymore Road area and was reported at 7.45am on Thursday.

Police said they are not treating it as suspicious. The PSNI said the mobile home was "completely destroyed" in the blaze.

See: Deadly Blaze Probed

(BMcC)

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