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Two names released of fire victims

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Operation SPRUCE

press release 6

4 April 2007

Name release of house fire victims

The names of two of the four victims of the house fire at Puriri Street on Monday morning, 2 April, have been released.

Only two formal identifications and two post mortems have been completed.

They are;

Junichi TOMONAGA aged 58 years, male

Michiko TOMONAGA, mother of Junichi, aged 80 years

The other two identifications are expected tomorrow.

Detective Inspector Greg Williams says that the investigation has been upgraded to a murder inquiry.

"Our focus is to identify who is responsible for these deaths," he says.