A person has been found dead after a house fire at a retirement village in Auckland this morning.
Emergency services were called to Riddell Rd in Glendowie at 7.45am, police said.
“One person was located deceased at the address.”
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The house was in the St Andrew’s Village retirement complex, with a resident describing the victim as “a lovely lady”.