{"id":55213,"date":"2023-05-17T14:08:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T05:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/17\/deadly-wellington-hostel-fire-treated-arson-new-zealand-police"},"modified":"2023-05-17T14:08:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T05:08:49","slug":"deadly-wellington-hostel-fire-being-treated-as-arson-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55213","title":{"rendered":"Deadly Wellington hostel fire being treated as arson, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand police open homicide inquiry after at least six die in Loafers Lodge blaze<\/p>\n<p>A fire that erupted in a Wellington hostel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/16\/wellington-hostel-fire-multiple-people-dead-in-new-zealand-blaze\">killing at least six people<\/a>, is being investigated as arson by New Zealand\u2019s police, who have started a homicide inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody has been arrested, Inspector Dion Bennett said on Wednesday. He would not say why officers believed the fire was deliberately lit, or whether accelerants were used.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/17\/deadly-wellington-hostel-fire-treated-arson-new-zealand-police\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand police open homicide inquiry after at least six die in Loafers Lodge blazeA fire that erupted in a Wellington hostel, killing at least six people, is being investigated as arson by New Zealand\u2019s police, who have started a homicide inquiry.N&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,56,966,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-wellington","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55214,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55213\/revisions\/55214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}