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Fire in St John's Wood deemed 'not suspicious'
A flat fire in St John's Wood which killed two children is now being treated as non-suspicious by police.
Shortly before 3am on Thursday, December 17, police were informed of a fire at a four-storey block of flats in Cunningham Place.
A girl of five, Farah Rashid, was pronounced dead at the scene, and her brother Mohamad Rashid, 13, fell from a window and later died in hospital.
Police have confirmed they are no longer treating the incident as suspicious, and believe the fire was caused by an 'electrical fault'.
Post-mortems and an inquest will be scheduled in due course.
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