Police investigating suspicious Canterbury house fireSTUFF Firefighters were called to reports of a house on fire at a dairy farm on Rakaia Selwyn Rd, Southbridge, about 11.30pm on Sunday (file photo). Police are investigating a suspicious fire that destroyed a Canterbury home. Rakaia Volunteer Fire Brigade deputy chief Fred Clarkson said firefighters were called to a house on fire at a dairy farm on Rakaia Selwyn Rd, Southbridge, about 11.30pm on Sunday. It was a matter of extinguishing the house and it was lost." Police Detective Sergeant Mike Freeman said an investigation was under way and the blaze was being treated as suspicious.

Source: Stuff March 27, 2018 03:45 UTC