AAP General News (Australia)
08-17-2000
NSW: House fire claims man and woman.
A man and a woman have died in a house fire in the southern New South Wales town of Queanbeyan.
The couple's three children have survived the blaze -- two of them being rescued by police.
Police believe the inferno may have been deliberately lit.
Emergency crews arrived at the Barracks Flat Drive home about 6 am (AEST) to find it
engulfed in flames and a young child standing outside.
A police spokesman says two police officers went in and rescued two other children.
But one of the officers became disorientated and had to be rescued by a third officer.
The spokesman says a man and a woman were found to have died in the fire.
Three police officers and the three children were taken to Queanbeyan Hospital suffering
from the effects of smoke inhalation.
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