{"id":5688,"date":"2024-07-30T07:36:31","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T07:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/boy-17-arrested-after-man-dies-in-house-fire\/"},"modified":"2024-07-30T07:36:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T07:36:31","slug":"boy-17-arrested-after-man-dies-in-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/boy-17-arrested-after-man-dies-in-house-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 17, arrested after man dies in house fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A teenager has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man died in a house fire in east London.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Firefighters were called to the blaze in Oval Road North, Dagenham, on Saturday afternoon and, having forced their way in, found the body of a man in his 70s.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The Met Police said the 17-year-old boy was in police custody.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Another male, who was arrested in connection with the investigation, has been released on bail pending further inquiries, the force added.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The cause of the fire is under investigation but is being treated as suspicious. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A post-mortem examination began on Monday.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Police said they were investigating whether the fire could be linked to two others that happened in the same part of Dagenham on Friday and Saturday lunchtimes.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">On Friday, several homes were damaged in a fire at a row of terraced houses on Third Avenue, while on Saturday there was a house blaze on Beam Avenue in Dagenham.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c6p24lj7jyqo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A teenager has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man died in a house fire in east London. Firefighters were called to the blaze in Oval Road North, Dagenham, on Saturday afternoon and, having forced their way in, found the body of a man in his 70s. The Met Police said the 17-year-old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1562,2810,1017,666,697,417],"class_list":["post-5688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-england","tag-arrested","tag-boy","tag-dies","tag-fire","tag-house","tag-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5690,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688\/revisions\/5690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}