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Elderly man dies after fire torches retirement home

A fire at a retirement home that killed a man is not suspicious, investigators say. Picture: AAP/Joel Carrett
By Jacob Shteyman and Aap

An elderly man has died and a woman is in hospital after a fire tore through a retirement village in […]

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