Man dies in Co Mayo house fire

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Friday January 27 2012

An elderly man has died in a house fire in Co Mayo’s Inver.

The blaze broke out at a house at Gortmelia this morning.

His body removed to Mayo General Hospital in Castlebar for a post-mortem.

The scene has been preserved for technical examination and Gardaí say they are not treating the fire as suspicious.

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