File photo. Photo: RNZ / Rebekah Parsons-King
One person has died after a house fire in Christchurch.
Emergency services were called to an apartment on Korimako Lane just after 4pm on Tuesday after reports of a fire alarm sounding and the smell of smoke.
Police said one person was transported to hospital in critical condition, where they died.
Four crews responded and the blaze was contained at 4:35pm.
Enquiries into the circumstances of the blaze are ongoing.
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