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Police have been keeping guard overnight at the scene of a house fire in Manawatลซ on Saturday, where three children and their father died.
The deaths at Sanson are being treated as a murder-suicide, RNZ understands, although police are yet to confirm that.
Manawatลซ Area Commander Inspector Ross Grantham said the father was not burned - but his three children, aged 1, 5 and 7, were.
It is understood the father was Dean Field, and the children have been named in the Givealittle campaign for their mother as August, Hugo and Goldie.
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