Three people have been killed in a series of separate house fires in the North in the span of just 24 hours.
A man aged in his 20s was killed when a fire broke out in the Queen Victoria Gardens area of North Belfast, at around 11am yesterday morning.
Less than two hours later, a woman was killed in another fire, in the Abbey Park area of Bangor.
The blaze broke out at 12:30pm, and the Fire and Rescue Service managed to bring the blaze under control.
Sadly a woman, aged in her 50s, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Then this morning, another woman, aged in her 40s, was killed in a house fire in Dunmurry.
Police say they received a report of a fire at a property at the Areema Drive area at approximately 3:55am, and attended the scene with members of the Ambulance Service and the Fire and Rescue Service.
The fire was extinguished, and a woman aged in her 40s was pronounced dead at the scene.
A man aged in his 50s, a 19-year-old woman, and 11-year-old girl who were in the property, were taken onward to hospital for treatment to smoke inhalation.
Police say they are looking into the circumstances of all three fires, but at this stage, they are not being treated as suspicious.
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