17 Nov 2025

Death of children and father at house fire being treated as murder suicide, RNZ understands

From Checkpoint, 5:19 pm on 17 November 2025

RNZ understands the death of four people at the scene of a Manawatu house fire is being treated as a murder suicide. They included three children - August, Hugo and Goldie, aged 7, 5 and 1. The fourth person to die was their father. Nick James reports.