Suspicious fire in Macau boutique kills four
Bodies burned beyond recognition, with even their genders proving hard to identify
Four charred bodies were found inside a boutique in Macau after a suspicious fire ripped through the ground-floor shop early yesterday.
Police are investigating whether the blaze was started deliberately.
"The four bodies were burned beyond recognition. We cannot identify even their gender," a fire department spokesman, Lam Io-fan, said.
Lam said some circumstances of the blaze were suspicious.
"We were unable to find a reasonable cause of the fire and the front metal gate of the shop was wide open when our colleagues arrived," he said.
Six fire engines were dispatched when the blaze broke out in the shop, Sweet's, on the ground floor of an old apartment block on Rua do Tarrafeiro, in the central district of the city, at about 4am.