A woman is dead and another person is taken to hospital in a serious condition after a suspicious fire in a Perth hostel.
A woman has died and another person is in hospital with serious injuries after a fire broke out at a backpacker hostel in East Perth overnight.
A man is assisting police with their investigation into the blaze, which is being treated as suspicious. Emergency services received a triple-zero call just after midnight, reporting flames from the two-storey Exclusive Backpackers hostel on Adelaide Terrace.More than a dozen people were left waiting on the street, many with little more than the shirts on their backs.
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