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| Elderly man dies after house fire | |
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| A man aged in his 80s has died following a fire at his home in Bangor, County Down, the police have said. | |
| He was found by fire crews in the hallway of the house in Innisfayle Drive just after 2000 BST on Wednesday after he had tried to tackle the blaze. | |
| Neighbours were alerted by the man's smoke alarm going off and they called the fire and rescue service. | |
| Police said they were investigating the death, but that it was not being treated as suspicious at the moment. | |
| A post mortem examination is due to be carried out on the body to establish the cause of death. | |
| Two fire appliances tackled the blaze, which caused damage to the hallway of the house. | Two fire appliances tackled the blaze, which caused damage to the hallway of the house. |
| Stephen Boyd, from the NI Fire and Rescue Service, said crews dealt with the fire within minutes of arriving. The man was taken to hospital where he later died. | |
| "He had discovered the fire before the smoke alarms went off and had been trying to deal with the fire himself," he said. | "He had discovered the fire before the smoke alarms went off and had been trying to deal with the fire himself," he said. |