PENSIONER IS KILLED IN XMAS EVE HOUSE BLAZE

Four also treated over blaze at flats

A PENSIONER died in a house fire on Christmas Eve morning.

Emergency services attended the blaze at Braeside Park in Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh, at around 11am.

A PSNI spokesman confirmed a man in his 80s was found dead at the scene.

He said: “An investigation into the cause of the fire, which is not believed to be suspicious, has now commenced.”

Meanwhile, a rescue operation was launched yesterday after a fire at a flat complex in South Belfast.

A major emergency effort took place

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at the Russell Court buildings on Lisburn Road.

Teams from the PSNI, fire and ambulance services rushed to the scene of what was described as a “complex” fire.

The building was evacuated and four people were treated at the scene with two of them rushed to the Royal Victoria Hospital.

Fire and Rescue Service Lisburn headquarters area commander Mark Smyth said a specialist rescue team had been tasked to the area and a command room was set up to deal with the emergency.

Six appliances were tasked after the first call was received at 10.50am.

The Ambulance Service received a 999 call at 10.52am “following reports of a flat fire in the Lower Lisburn Road area of Belfast, where a number of people required medical care”.

A spokesman said four emergency crews attended the incident and “following assessment and initial treatment at the scene, two patients were taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital”.

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