Four arrested over 'race arson'
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Four people, including a 14-year-old boy, have been arrested over what police described as a race-related arson attack on a house in Sunderland.
A Bangladeshi couple and their five children managed to escape the blaze in Northcote Avenue on 10 November.
However, the woman's father collapsed and died after rushing to the scene.
Northumbria Police said four males, aged 28, 26, 17 and 14, were arrested in a series of raids in the city on Wednesday on suspicion of arson.
They were being questioned by detectives at police stations in the city.
Syed Sorafot Ali, 76, of Churchill Street, died from a suspected heart attack after rushing to the scene.
His daughter, Syeda Sahnaz Begum and her husband Abul Kalam Azad and their five children escaped, some by jumping from an upstairs window.
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Four people, including a 14-year-old boy, have been arrested over what police described as a race-related arson attack on a house in Sunderland.
A Bangladeshi couple and their five children managed to escape the blaze in Northcote Avenue on 10 November.
However, the woman's father collapsed and died after rushing to the scene.
Northumbria Police said four males, aged 28, 26, 17 and 14, were arrested in a series of raids in the city on Wednesday on suspicion of arson.
They were being questioned by detectives at police stations in the city.
Syed Sorafot Ali, 76, of Churchill Street, died from a suspected heart attack after rushing to the scene.
His daughter, Syeda Sahnaz Begum and her husband Abul Kalam Azad and their five children escaped, some by jumping from an upstairs window.
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